All I can do now, beside admire it, is test the power supplies, until I get some ARM code.
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For a second there I thought you meant Hillary got the Dems' nomination.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:54:06 -0000 (UTC), Julian Barnes Gave us:
Except that she is not flying high in the sky..
She is floating low on the sea surface of American politics like a turd in a toilet bowl full of piss.
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She may not be the ideal candidate, but she would be competent to do the jo b if she got elected. Bernie Sanders might be a better choice, but the Amer ican media has spent a couple of generations confusing socialism with commu nism, so he's unlikely to make it.
The Republican party hasn't been able to come up with anybody more attracti ve than Donald Trump, which has to be evidence of gross incompetence, as if Dubbya wasn't enough.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:37:54 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org Gave us:
The Republican Party did not "come up with" Donald Trump.. Donald J. Trump is a democratic ploy to cause dissention among republican voters enough to insure that yet another democrat get put into office again. He is not a republican and never was. He can claim to be "in the party", but carries absolutely NONE of the standards and idioms of the party and is therefore a mere interloper, and that can only serve to cause a failure in the party to get a candidate into office.
You stand around with your pants down fairly often. This is yet another one of those times.
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I never suggested that the Republican Party "came up" with Donald Trump. Th e whole point is that the people who the Republican Party imagined to be th eir annointed candidates for the nomination aren't nearly as attractive to right wing voters as Donald Trump. He regularly contradicts himself, says a mazingly stupid things, and is still more attractive than Jeb Bush, Ted Cru z and Marco Rubio.
That's some achievement.
At least I didn't invade Irak for false reasons, at vast expense and to nob ody's benefit (except perhaps Haliburton's). Dubbya is in the running for t he worst president that the USA has ever had. If you think anything else it 's your pants that are down around your ankles.
The Republican Party was silly enough to put up his brother - Jeb Bush - as a candidate. Republican voters may be silly enough to vote for Trump as a candidate for the presidency, but they weren't silly enough to vote for Jeb Bush. Once bitten, twice shy.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:23:46 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org Gave us:
There were WMDs, idiot. They were spirited off to Syria as the invasion to get Saddam started. Saddam himself took the same path but got caught before he made it out.
What do you think Assad used against his own people?
You ain't real bright.
Oh well I'm glad you've exonerated yourself. I'd figured you for some Hillary butt-licker.
Every right-wing nitwit feels that they have to claim that there really wer e weapons of mass destruction, but nobody seems to have found one.
And the dog ate your homework. The US was running every kind of aerial reco nnaissance - from satellite observation on down - but Saddam was still able to spirit his mythical weapons of mass destruction off to Syria without an ybody being the wiser? Without leaving any kind of trace that the Pentagon could point to and say that "that looks like a weapon of mass destruction on the move"?
Granting the enthusiasm with which tiny over-looked stocks of time-expired poison gas shells were publicised as people ran into them, this is one case where absence of evidence looks very like evidence of absence.
Not exactly a reliable route then.
Poison gas, and lots of it. Ali Chemicali was famous for it. But Saddam got rid of almost all of it after the first Gulf War. The UN weapons inspector s were pretty thorough - probably more thorough than Saddam's quarter-maste rs (see above).
Being called "not real bright" by AlwaysWrong is definitely a back-handed c ompliment.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:48:48 -0000 (UTC), Julian Barnes Gave us:
You are just another presumptuous putz. Most every Trump butt munching retard is..
I am a republican and have stated that here many times, you stupid f*ck.
You are *almost* as much of a retarded buffoon as Trump himself is.
He just wanted an excuse to talk about his three favorite subjects.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Yeah, claiming that there really were WMDs at this point, and that they were secretly spirited away under the nose of all that intel is definely one of those "you were either ignorant, or you were incompetent" type of situations.
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All the power supplies and XOs work. I'm whining and bribing for code.
I can ground the relay driver outputs and click relays. Various relays have distinctly different click tones, so we should be able to play recognizable tunes on it.
I guess meanwhile I'll write a PC app to click the relays. It would be nice to have an int(272) data type. The relay drivers look like one giant 272 bit shift register. The interface is USB, an FTDI usb-serial chip, and the ascii command is K xxxxxxxx...xxxxxxxxx , 68 hex digits to load all the relays.
Electronics is more fun than politics. Or toilets.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
You need to consider Forth. You can define any type you wish as well as any operators on that type. Best of all, the entire compiler can run
*on your target* and you can test the code interactively! The PC only needs a terminal emulator like program and your USB serial port.Loading all 272 relays from a command line is going to be bitch though. Better to define commands to do specific tasks... assuming there are specific tasks other than setting all 272 relays. I mean, if you only want to change a subset, you can define a command that knows the current state and masks in the ones you want to change before sending out the
272 bit string.
It can be.
-- Rick
Congrats John. Looks perty!
Re-remind me what it?s for...?
FIRST!!!
... to reply with something resembling an on-topic reply.
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
Is that mini-USB near the top left corner? (to the right of the E-net conn) You could power it from USB. (c;
int(91) would do the trick if you bitmap values of 0 to 7 for each group of three relays into each digit. Octal/binary can be converted back and forth easily.
Oh, I'll just do a bunch of u16 ints and grunt the math, about a minute of hard thinking about LSBs and stuff. Convert them to hex and concatenate the strings and shoot them out.
At 115K baud, the USB comm burst will take about a millisecond, plenty fast to control relays. Ethernet would be faster? Reading the DVM will take a lot longer.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
It's the heart of a new test rack that can test most of our products and replace a mess of scruffy old test fixtures and DOS programs. The connectors on the bottom edge can cable to various products, and the relays are a giant matrix that connects DUT pins to test equipment connected up top. One rack will have two of these boards, a bunch of test gear, and a PC running a heap of Python.
The firmware will refuse to turn on more than 100 relays, which is about 3.5 amps coil current at 5 volts. The little switchers can make
4 amps.We do have some small products that are powered by USB, even if they don't talk USB. It's the universal power supply. This giant board uses
24 volts, 1 amp maybe.-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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