Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Machinetalk”
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This blog post is part 5 of the Machinetalk explained series describing the concepts and ideas behind the Machinetalk middleware. In this section, I describe the part of Machinetalk which probably needs most explanation. What I'm talking about is Machinetalk GSL - language bindings for Machinetalk using code generation. But before we delve deep into code generation and meta-programming I ...
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This blog post is part 4 of the Machinetalk explained series describing the concepts and ideas behind the Machinetalk middleware. This part is about HAL remote, the remote interface to the Machinekit hardware abstraction layer HAL. In this blog post, I do not only describe the HAL remote API, but I also explain the communication details of Machinetalk with the ...
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This blog post is a continuation of my Machinetalk explained series describing the concepts and ideas behind the Machinetalk middleware. This part is about the technologies and building blocks of Machinetalk ZeroMQ, Protobuf and DNS-SD over mDNS. The previous parts are: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Middleware Requirements Part 4: HAL Remote Part 5: Code Generation Message Transport - ZeroMQ ...
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This blog post is a continuation of my Machinetalk explained series describing the concepts and ideas behind the Machinetalk middleware. This part is about the requirements of the Machinetalk middleware and their fulfillment through the used technologies. To understand the concepts outlined in this article I recommend you first to read Part 1: Introduction before continuing reading this article. If ...
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This blog article is about Machinetalk, the middleware for distributed systems which serves as remote API to Machinekit. This blog post is the first part of the Machinetalk explained series which describe different parts of the Machinetalk middleware. I'm writing this blog post series since I dedicated a lot of time in the last years working on the Machinetalk technology ...
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In this blog post, I present WebVCP - web-based user interfaces for Machinekit. Reasons for web UIs over native UIs I have dedicated a lot of my work in the last years ro QtQuickVcp which is a remote UI framework for Machinekit targeting desktop and mobile applications. So you may wonder why I even explored the possibilities of web UIs ...
