PIDSIM

Following the line of the previous post, I will talk about the projects I'll stop maintaining for now. It's not a gentoo-x86 package, but it's available for Gentoo users anyway.

This post is about PIDSIM, that was the base of my bachelor thesis. It is a web-based PID controllers simulator, created with Python and some cool libraries, like Matplotlib and the Flask framework.

I spent almost 3 years working on this project, and now I'm tired of it. Actually I finished the stuff I wanted to implement and presented it to get my degree.

You can see the application working here:

http://pidsim.rafaelmartins.eng.br/

The software repositories are still available on my Mercurial server:

http://hg.rafaelmartins.eng.br/pidsim/

Gentoo users can install it from a specific overlay I created:

http://hg.rafaelmartins.eng.br/pidsim/gentoo-overlay/

P.S.: Some time ago I heard some rumors that this project is being ported to PHP by another student. The people who knows me well can imagine how "happy" I became with this. It looks like I did a big effort to create something good and they are just throwing away. I don't know if it's possible to port this software to PHP, or if they will succeed, I don't care. The question is: "How they want to obtain progress on the research, if they rewrite things that are already done instead of just extend them?" Anyway, I really don't care and this thing is not my problem anymore.

Thanks.