Small things/Narrow mind

[hirez]

AVR board turned up last week. PCB-jumper connectors and breadboard today.

I believe my soldering-iron is about thirty years old. New-fangled solder smells about the same as the old stuff and I still appear to be able to make things stick together without melting.

Of course I've lost my old breadboard, medium box of useful components, spare set of 'scope probes, Interfaker... On the other hand, a PC wiring-loom can be harvested to provide a variety of useful connectors with lengths of wire attached.

I really do need the Interfaker though. Unless the demo code talks to a PC. I think perhaps it does.

Comments

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Are you making your own DVR?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nah - fiddling with a microcontroller.

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Will you allow LJ to select the display message to wear to the event of your choice?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Probably.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Butterfly?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Actually being able to buy one, the display and the ease of 1-wire swung it over the Arduino.

[stilettowhore.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I built a ps2 sniffer out of an ardiuno, do you really think 1-wire is any easier to implement than regular rs232?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The bag of sensors from RS are all 1-wire, so...

Years ago, I was working for some mob who extracted data from path. lab computers and sent it via modem (I can't dignify the product with the concept of email) to GPs. The most common method of getting at the data was to tee off the RS232 port to the printer and screen-scrape (well, not screen, but YKWIM) the numbers out of the boxes on the printed forms.

For this, they used their own 'comms library'.

Because I was basically idle, I introduced them to the ideas of the Greenleaf comms library and gathering data-dumps from site.

... I'm not sure where I'm going with that. Perhaps it was part of the 90s that I'd rather forget.