On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net
wrote:
ok, i got one - how about putting on the eoma discussion page the stuff that was talked about a few days ago? just cut/paste and then perhaps research some of the arduino material.
Just looked back at this -- I honestly thought it was someone else who posted it and was going to ask your opinion, LOL. I can definitely do copypasta from thread to discussion page, although if it uses neither HTML nor BBCode for formatting I'll have issues. I'll be starting tomorrow at the earliest, since it's getting late here now -- what specific threads/content were you thinking of, so I don't mess up? (I have a very short memory, and I'm easily confused -- sorry!)
Also: I know very little about Arduino -- except that it's programmed primarily in a language I don't speak ;) I'll have to conquer that, eventually, for a project of my own... but for now that is not to be. I've done a little work with PICAXE but they won't work here -- no derivative works for them, *and* they're closed-source. I know someone who is very heavily into Arduino stuff, but I've gotten the impression from what he's told me in the past, that he'd probably not want to be roped into contributing to EOMA. He's trying to forget his past forays into electronics and computers so that he can focus as exclusively as possible on Arduino stuff... I can sort of understand and respect that. He's been doing that stuff for a very long time, is my understanding, so he probably is just clearing space so new knowledge can be stored :P
I do have some obligation to him, though, to expand my electronic knowledge -- after all, he did give me a 70s vintage Tektronix 422 recently ;) I've no idea how to use it yet -- I need to get on that, soon. (He gave me the manual with the scope...) Maybe once I get the hang of that, I can contribute more... I dunno. I've also seen, on Hackaday, a very simple device that would permit me to run that o-scope as an 8-channel logic analyzer, although it would pale in comparison to the real thing... IIRC, it's basically a shift-register setup. I have the Hackaday blurb bookmarked, if people are interested.
For now, it's late, and I'm going to wander off towards my bed.