Hamster madness!

Bought a 'Hamster Wheel' from Marks & Spencer? Disappointed that it didn't work with Linux? Here's the answer, thanks to Scott Weston <scott at weston dot id dot au> and (blush) myself, as I wrote this quick patch to Scott's code. Incidentally, I've tried to contact Scott but he hasn't answered my mail, so if he's reading this: Scott, I acknowledge that you are the author of the original missile.py code and your copyright notice is intact (and I haven't added my own because I'm shy).

Technical gubbins:

Hamster wheel USB ID = 1130:0202
Manufacturer: "Tenx Technology, Inc."

Stuff:

missile.py (Python code for M&S missile launcher)
hamster.patch My patch to missile.py to turn the missile launcher into a hamster wheel
hamster.txt Description of control sequences
pyusb-0.3.1.tar.gz PyUSB - you'll need this.
and this.. (urwid-0.9.3.tar)

To be able to run missile.py without installing anything, I compiled urwid to a package and unpacked it to the current dir, and did the same with pyusb, symlinking to pyusb-0.3.1/build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/usb.so.

Directory listing ('ls -lR').

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This page was hastily-constructed and is bound to be full of errors and omissions, so complaints, please, to brooknet at imap dot cc - that's the obfuscated email address.