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In this tutorial we're going to build a set of parser combinators.

What is a parser combinator?

We'll answer the above question in 2 steps

  1. what is a parser?
  2. and.. what is a parser combinator?

So first question: What is parser?

Taking your nodebot wifi

Controlling your nodebot using a USB cable is great and all, and obviously you could shell out and grab a sparkcore or some other dedicated controller but what if you've got a standard arduino and you want to take an existing nodebot wireless?

Bluetooth is an option and there's this excellent JohnnyFive wiki entry that will help you there. Bluetooth can be a bit flaky though and it's range is pretty lousy. You can also look at things like XBees and what not using point to point serial, but these are expensive and very fiddly to get working.

Really, what we want is a method of transferring data over a nice, simple, standard method, requiring little configuration, low cost and we can utilise a whole stack of the code we've already produced.

Enter the WiFi232 module. These little beauties are [available from AliExpress for $12 each](http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USR-WIFI232-T-wifi-to-uart-tt

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boneskull / uninstall_vmware.sh
Created January 14, 2014 04:46
completely uninstall vmware on mac
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Usage: bash uninstall_vmware.bash
remove() {
entry="$1"
echo -ne "Removing \e[1;34m$entry\e[0m... "
sudo rm -rf "$entry" &> /tmp/uninstall-vmware.log
if [[ ! -e "$entry" ]]; then
echo -e "\e[1;32mOK\e[0m"