Why don't you use a simulator of a PDA? You could use, for example, the Palm emulator. That way, you get the nice feedback onscreen, and all the advantages of programming the real thing without the cost.
It isn't rocket science. The Hacker's Diet works based on an energy deficiency. If you don't have enough calories, you have to get the energy from somewhere else (ie, burning muscle and/or fat). The Hacker's Diet's shortcoming is that it's merely a reduced calorie diet, which leads to muscle as well as fat loss. You can get skinny that way, though, over time. It's a good idea to introduce weight training and aerobic activity to really increase your health.
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Fiber can be a pain in the ass to put in. Make sure you don't touch the actual glass... you'll never get those splinters out.
If you have the means to put in fiber, though, go right ahead... but don't get secondary support equipment for it, as that might change by the time you want to put it into use.
Well, maybe not easy, but you'd need a few things:
1) An A/D chip. You can also make one yourself by following schematics from any standard analog electronics book. It just takes a voltage (let's say 5 V) and converts it into it's digital equivalent (which would then be 101). You can build a converter yourself out of cheap parts from radio shack, assuming you're using low currents.
2) Some sort of clock. One easy thing is to build it as a parallel port device. This'll take a little bit of hardware (not a whole lot, though), and you can use the computer to clock the thing. Or, of course, you could build a PCI/ISA card, but that seems like more of a hassle.
Assuming you don't need bidirectional communication on the device, you could just have a straight-through connection to the parallel port (I think), and just write a program to poll the port and plot the data. Hmm, this might be a fun project for me to try later...
A harder (and maybe more useful) project would be to try to make a Digital Logic Analyzer... these things are REALLY nice when working on digital electronics.
Anywho, the standard disclaimer of my irresponsibility;-) applies... Also, I'm assuming that you're talking about working with low wattages. A hand-wired A/D converter can handle whatever wattage the individual resistors are rated for (though you need to make sure that you aren't blasting out the parallel port), whereas the A/D chips can end up with pretty low max voltages.
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Why don't you use a simulator of a PDA? You could use, for example, the Palm emulator. That way, you get the nice feedback onscreen, and all the advantages of programming the real thing without the cost.
It isn't rocket science. The Hacker's Diet works based on an energy deficiency. If you don't have enough calories, you have to get the energy from somewhere else (ie, burning muscle and/or fat). The Hacker's Diet's shortcoming is that it's merely a reduced calorie diet, which leads to muscle as well as fat loss. You can get skinny that way, though, over time. It's a good idea to introduce weight training and aerobic activity to really increase your health.
Fiber can be a pain in the ass to put in. Make sure you don't touch the actual glass... you'll never get those splinters out.
If you have the means to put in fiber, though, go right ahead... but don't get secondary support equipment for it, as that might change by the time you want to put it into use.
Well, maybe not easy, but you'd need a few things:
;-) applies... Also, I'm assuming that you're talking about working with low wattages. A hand-wired A/D converter can handle whatever wattage the individual resistors are rated for (though you need to make sure that you aren't blasting out the parallel port), whereas the A/D chips can end up with pretty low max voltages.
1) An A/D chip. You can also make one yourself by following schematics from any standard analog electronics book. It just takes a voltage (let's say 5 V) and converts it into it's digital equivalent (which would then be 101). You can build a converter yourself out of cheap parts from radio shack, assuming you're using low currents.
2) Some sort of clock. One easy thing is to build it as a parallel port device. This'll take a little bit of hardware (not a whole lot, though), and you can use the computer to clock the thing. Or, of course, you could build a PCI/ISA card, but that seems like more of a hassle.
Assuming you don't need bidirectional communication on the device, you could just have a straight-through connection to the parallel port (I think), and just write a program to poll the port and plot the data. Hmm, this might be a fun project for me to try later...
A harder (and maybe more useful) project would be to try to make a Digital Logic Analyzer... these things are REALLY nice when working on digital electronics.
Anywho, the standard disclaimer of my irresponsibility