Oh, just don't call the thing with a serial number of 666.
The other day I was headed back with some groceries when I did a double-take: A car with Ontario licence plate OZZY 666. Too bad the cops probably don't call in plates verbally any more. I'd love to record that one on the scanner!
You can get a nice Microchip PIC16F877 for about $5 that will absolutely kill the motorola chip
Yes, that's what I mean: For their course, they are using incredibly primitive resources, perhaps on purpose. Once they can do their project with that, they'll be able to do anything with a modern PIC.
Definitely! As they are mechanical engineering students, they'd better know the theory and learn about applying theory. I notice they were given a very low-powered controller board. They had to take the theories, and find a solution that would fit.
The project was for a course, so perhaps the whole idea was to have them use minimum resources? When you have to make do with less, you have to get smart.
Ports
- 16 digital ports - each programmable as input or output (5V/10mA),
- 8 analogue inputs,
- 2 analogue outputs (pulse-width modulated, PWM frequency 1953 Hz),
- DCF-77 input (also for frequency measuring),
- RS-232 interface (1200 - 9600 Baud).
If you were looking for the lowest power microcontroller board available, this would be in the running. I guess it was inexpensive -- always a plus for student projects. (My first computer in 1979 could probably thrash this good, except in size.)
It seems a lot of work. (From here at a distance.) I know that even when they started there were tools for that sort of work. (I just found my DTSS RUNOFF*** manual, whee!)
Ah well, if they have a standard way formating ASCII text then producing an XML version from it should be too daunting. (Me, once again from a distance.)
But an automated translation to Klingon, priceless! (I'm joking, that would be daunting!)
The first Gutenberg books I came across were being passed around BBSs at 2400 bps or so. When they started 32 years ago, 110, maybe 300 bps. Who cares? Check the size of the files, these aren't Word documents, you know.
a very large scale one even by Gutenberg standards
I wonder. Does Gutenberg keep their sources in ASCII or something else that they runoff to produce the ASCII final version? It might be that they already have formating information that a smarter runoff process could use. (Heh, I can dream, right?)
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The other day I was headed back with some groceries when I did a double-take: A car with Ontario licence plate OZZY 666. Too bad the cops probably don't call in plates verbally any more. I'd love to record that one on the scanner!
This Sunday's cartoon :^)
At least their 256 only needs to used the stack and variables.
Yes, that's what I mean: For their course, they are using incredibly primitive resources, perhaps on purpose. Once they can do their project with that, they'll be able to do anything with a modern PIC.
Yeah, you have to program it in assembler
Really? Why?
I wonder how well it dribbles? And how good is its dunk shot?
Sorry, I can only remember when it was 204 bytes for a buck.
How it was the mass-availability of MS-DOS that made clones possible. Have we gone full-circle? :^)
Someone could cause chaos by strolling through a downtown with an infected system.
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Definitely! As they are mechanical engineering students, they'd better know the theory and learn about applying theory. I notice they were given a very low-powered controller board. They had to take the theories, and find a solution that would fit.
The project was for a course, so perhaps the whole idea was to have them use minimum resources? When you have to make do with less, you have to get smart.
If you were looking for the lowest power microcontroller board available, this would be in the running. I guess it was inexpensive -- always a plus for student projects. (My first computer in 1979 could probably thrash this good, except in size.)
Yes perhaps, but in this case, it doesn't run either. Now what?
It sure got me wet.
Ah well, if they have a standard way formating ASCII text then producing an XML version from it should be too daunting. (Me, once again from a distance.)
But an automated translation to Klingon, priceless! (I'm joking, that would be daunting!)
The first Gutenberg books I came across were being passed around BBSs at 2400 bps or so. When they started 32 years ago, 110, maybe 300 bps. Who cares? Check the size of the files, these aren't Word documents, you know.
I wonder. Does Gutenberg keep their sources in ASCII or something else that they runoff to produce the ASCII final version? It might be that they already have formating information that a smarter runoff process could use. (Heh, I can dream, right?)
2. Hard work to put them in computer form.
3. ????
4. Profit! (For all humanity.)
Hip-Hip-Hooray for a job well done!
What all these Soviet Russia and All Your Base changes that have been marked in? And what is goatse?
Dispite all the heavy security and paranoia in the movie, maybe by that time all projects are Open Source? :^P (The Tuxinator?)
Just kidding!
"You were going to kill him!"
"Yes. I'm the Governor."
Huh, I figured that it was Homer Simpson when he was hooked on painkillers. D'OH!
Yep, sometimes you just never know how things are ging to turn out.
Don't you mean SKY.NET?