hobby said:
I guess that means your not going to go into business building these and selling them to the rest of us in this group.
You are correct sir.
hobby said:
This is the freindliest forum out there.
Everybody is really nice, and helpful,
You are, once again, correct sir. :big:
Troutsqueezer said:
Many people think that electricity is electrons flowing at the speed of light but electrons actually flow quite slowly, at speeds on the order of centimeters per minute.
mklotz said:
Another way to think about it is to imagine the wire as a hose filled with tightly packed BBs (the electrons). If I push more BBs into one end of the hose, BBs will fall out of the other end at the same rate as they are pushed in. All the BBs move, but not nearly as fast as the input BBs *appear* to arrive at the output end of the hose.
And not in an orderly manner. They're bouncing around, back and forth. Not an orderly movement. Like a bunch of drunks trying to get out of a bar...
Vielen Dank Marcel...I didn't know 'TAKT' meant clock. Your link took me on an interesting trip.
hobby...yeah that's what I remember...at least for the T1-3/4 package...the smaller ones don't have flats...and it was the flats I used to key the position.
So...
Not a lot of progress...got the boards wired up. Programmed a processor for some basic tests.
Connected a wall wart. The good news is that nothing smoked. 5V on the parts that are supposed to have 5V...1.5V on the parts that are supposed to have 1.5V.
But nothing else. No lights. No equivalent "Hello World". Might be time to borrow a scope from work.
Some bit of good news...I came across a bunch of stand-offs I had. I'll probably mount the board to a sheet of something and use a piece of plexi for the front...just mask it off so I can see the display but hide the fantastic wiring job I did. ;D
About here is where you say..."Humph...is that all?"
