[rescue] VxWorks?

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 09:17 PM, Barry Fujii wrote:
> the project itself was quite cool - it was a chassis floating on
> a bed of compress air on a perfectly level piece of granite.
>
> the chassis had a replica of what was supposed to be the ISS 
> centrifuge.
> down to the little cages that would house animals... and i shit you 
> not,
> vibrating plastic rats.
>
> our job was to write the code that would move the counter weights that
> ran parallel to the arms of the centrifuge that would balance the
> centrifuge in real time. vibrations in space are a bad thing, they 
> cause
> stuff to fall apart and fall out of the sky.
>
> i also ended up coding the testing UI using World Tool Kit, a VR
> package. we displayed the centrifuge in VR and tracked its movements
> to help verify the 'non motion.' we used another windriver product
> called NDDS to deliver data from an early wireless ethernet link
> onto the regular wired network and to the SGI workstations.

   That sounds *cool*.

   Always grab copies of the software, though. ;)

      -Dave

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