Roadshow: Amy's First Car
erco
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpK9rsPMe4
Something we made at work for a charity auction found its way into my den.·Amy can't wait to drive it!
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·"If you build it, they will come."
Something we made at work for a charity auction found its way into my den.·Amy can't wait to drive it!
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·"If you build it, they will come."
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Now just remember Erco, whatever impresses her now, its going to take something 10x as impressive when she's 15. I'm envisioning large video walls, lasers, pyrotechnics at absolute minimum
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Jim
and a 40KF Cap to power it too .. LOLs
In dash DVD GPS nav
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
And a lot of charlieplexing I bet
Little Amy is a darling!
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
@Holly: 3 micros inside Roadshow. Wish I could say they were Stamps, but for once I let our electronics whizzes at work use their own micros. I was busy busy building & wiring the doggone thing, which included drilling each & every one of the 400 LED holes and installing the LEDs.
Pretty sure·our EEs used EMC micros, which were ridiculously difficult and buggy to use. Use an emulator for development, then burn a board at the very end. They first tried a laptop, which bombed, and had to change to a workstation. Several brand new boards didn't work, they just threw them away. Some of the ones they did use had to be programmed several times with the same code before they worked. The Stamps never looked so good!
I used to get kidded a lot about using Stamps by these same EEs at work, until I saw what a pain these "favored" chips were, called them on it, and showed them how easy it is to program a Stamp; they don't chuckle any more.
@everyone: both girls are WONDERFUL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haFMPAjVJ-g·
Be ready to vote for them in the next Gerber Baby contest, I'll shamelessly start a thread when the voting starts!
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·"If you build it, they will come."
Groan and groan some more.
You are right, they should have just used a stamp!
What kind of EE guys do they have there anyway!? LoL
They should have been tasked to drill the holes and you should
have done the controller.