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Silk Purses From Sows Ears

PJAllenPJAllen BannedPosts: 5,065
edited 2010-04-30 23:02 in General Discussion
I have a bunch of sows ears and need to make silk purses from them.· How do I do that?· Should I connect them all to Ground?

Any ideas?

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  • sam_sam_samsam_sam_sam Posts: 2,286
    edited 2010-04-27 14:28
    What dose this have to do with micro controller and the like or am I missing something

    Just kidding

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  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2010-04-27 14:56
    RTFM. tongue.gif
  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2010-04-27 16:15
    I get the sows ears, they're audio sensors but where do the silk purses come in? storage devices? YES, connect all grounds!!

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  • Steph LindsaySteph Lindsay Posts: 767
    edited 2010-04-27 16:44
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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2010-04-27 17:23
    This might help those with a confused look on right now.

    http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/purse/

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  • WildatheartWildatheart Posts: 195
    edited 2010-04-28 22:50
    Mr. Allen, had your sows ears been properly grounded in the first place you’d be talkin’ European shoulder bags here, not silk purses!

    After RingTFM (as previously recommended), I’d recommend that you also proceed with sagaciousness.

    PS Does your question have anything to do with the pork you wrote about in another post regarding another member hoofin’ off with your silk purse? Just curious. If so, would you request that the Forum Administrator move this topic to the Test Forum. If not, my first suggestion sounds pretty reasonable to me.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2010-04-28 23:02
    I am a very, very·important student at a prestigious university, it's·one of the finest institutes of lower living on the planet,·and I don't have the time or inclination for this pedestrian boobery.· I just need "the code".· And don't junk this up with a bunch of stupid resistors or capacitors, because I'm wise to that.· Enough said?· Then get busy, you can be replaced.
  • WildatheartWildatheart Posts: 195
    edited 2010-04-29 09:36
    Knowing now that we could be brothers from another mother, there’s no need for me to address you as Mr. Allen again.

    I read today that China is outpacing us in the number of patents filed, so it’s likely we’re all only a few ohms away joining you in the low life you speak about. You don’t want this “junked up with a bunch of stupid resistors and capacitors”, but my advice would be for you to put a cap on it, else that ‘boobering pedestrian’ will soon be considered as one holding a position of high honor in the United States.

    BP needs an ROV that can cap an undersea oil well blow out. The world needs a solar sail to nudge space junk toward deorbit. Nursing homes need an alarm to monitor the escape of their Alzheimer patients. Children need educational stimulation in place of video entertainment. Want me to go on?

    We both know that Parallax has the sensors. But… you want “the code”. Typically, here, we do ‘junk things up with resistors and capacitors’, solar cells, accelerometers, RF devices, etc. prior to formulating the code. But in your case I’ll point you in the direction of the code before you start with the hardware. My name here (not by accident) is ‘Wildatheart’ – no, I don’t smoke the wackie tabackie, and the currents have been within tolerance too. I’m one of the old guys that still believes in the dream. But you don’t give a rats rear end about any of that – you’re a very, very important student and all you want is “the code”. Ok then… it’s found in an easy read, Wild At Heart by John Eldredge.

    Read it. Get “the code”. Order the sensors from Parallax. And report back here to your other brothers from other mothers after resigning your membership in the “Counsel of Despair”.

    Quite unlike your advice to me… you can’t be replaced. You can make a difference! It has always been, and always will be... all about grounding.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2010-04-29 13:19
    Any ideas?···· smilewinkgrin.gif



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  • WildatheartWildatheart Posts: 195
    edited 2010-04-29 17:59
    Of course.

    Here’s a simple experiment you can do in your bath tub with a windup egg timer and 5 gal. size paint stir stick marked in ¼ inch increments. (If a small amount of money is available you could also use a Parallax eTAPE LIQUID LEVEL SENSOR, item code 29131, in lieu of the stir stick). After removing the oxygen molecules from lukewarm water in the half full tub, open the drain and begin plotting liquid depth vs. time as the tub drains. A well done presentation of the charted data would make nice advertising for hard boiled eggs.

    Best of all… ya don’t even need “the code”, ya don’t have to RTFM, and ya don’t even have to tie the grounds of the stick and timer together.
  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2010-04-29 18:20
    Somebody let me in on the joke because this whole thread makes no sense to me at all ???

    Bean

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  • WildatheartWildatheart Posts: 195
    edited 2010-04-29 18:43
    Best we can tell, this isn't a joke. PJ Allen, "Counsel of Despair ???" is facing a conundrum of some sort.

    He's dealing with sow's ears and now he wants "the code". We're trying every way we know how to steer him
    back to the topic - sensors.

    Please chime in with your suggestions too. He's resisting and I'm running out of ideas.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2010-04-29 18:50
    For me, it's all about parody and·reductio ad absurdum.

    "The topic"?· Where is this rigid adherence to "the topic" anywhere?
  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2010-04-29 21:07
    For some reason, our Counsel of Despair seems to have recently (or not) come to the conclusion that forum posters are not doing a very good job of putting stuff in the appropriate forum and/or not using appropriate subject lines.

    See this thread, and specifically PJ's posts therein: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=865446

    Personally, I think he's got too much despair, and not enough counseling, but that's just me, and I could really use some counseling so as to help minimize my despair.

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  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2010-04-29 23:53
    PJ Allen said...
    I think I'm going to start posting questions about chicken recipes in the Propeller Forum and household repair questions in the Stamp Forum.
    Although this comes from the other thread I think I might as well comment on it here. My answer is if you do I would probably be the sucker to read it, I've always found PJ's responses to add color to these monotonous forums.

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  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2010-04-30 02:26
    PJ Allen said...

    For me, it's all about parody and·reductio ad absurdum.

    As someone who reads two newspapers a day, I believe that expression needs to be changed to "augmentio ad absurdum".

    Things are starting at a lower level than they used to with respect to absurdity.
  • WildatheartWildatheart Posts: 195
    edited 2010-04-30 17:54
    Although the subject of discussion here is supposed to be about sow’s ears, it really isn’t about pork at all - it’s about the beef. Here’s the beef!

    Note PJ’s contribution in http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=739950

    As I suspected in my first response the this nonsense, a business associate of the Counsel of Despair, possibly named Tim Gilmore, apparently shistered him out of a lucrative business opportunity in the third quarter of last year.

    PJ, because others have noticed and are now beginning to comment on your flip and void contributions to the forums, a reboot seems necessary. Suitable meds taken regularly along with a regimen of anger management classes usually gets every half byte processing again. Get the picture?
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2010-04-30 19:07
    Libel is the resort of the intellectually bankrupt.· Thanks for proving my point.· Whomever these "others", I care not.· Whatever, purse expert.· The mau-mau tactics might·have effect with your social worker, but not with me.· Have a good day.
  • dandreaedandreae Posts: 1,375
    edited 2010-04-30 22:15
    This is being moved to the "Sandbox"

    Dave

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2010-04-30 22:29
    Sorry, PJ. You're going to have to do your own homework. We're here to help, but not write the code for you. Post the code you have so far and we'll take a look.

    But as a hint, a Stamp is WAY too slow to accomplish the task at hand. You'll need a left-handed metric 11-cog Propeller. Ken Gracey only had 3 in stock when I checked.

    Oh, and Snipe Ears yield larger and stronger Silk purses than Pig ears.

    And yep, ground the Smile outta them.

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  • Dave EDave E Posts: 52
    edited 2010-04-30 22:33
    This post is suppose to make sense?
  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2010-04-30 23:02
    Wildatheart--anyone willing to call an engineer they have never met in need of medication because they disagree with his personality needs to think twice. Seriously, what is worse: dry humor posts or your rudeness to an engineer you have never met?

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