Its started...

[Chris Crosskey]

Dan wrote..

>Tony Allgood wrote:
>> Now what I
>> need is a pin for pin replacement for one. Perhaps based around
>> Juergen's HADSR, in SM and... no, it would never fit, but it was a
>> worthy ambition. If anyone works in a hybrid fab shop???
>
>Hey, how hard would it be to make one based on a PIC or BasicStamp?
>Or would that be too expensive?
>-Dan G.
>

It'd be too digital....:-)) WE'RE ALL ANALOGUE RETENTIVE AROUND HERE :-)))
Oops sorry for shouting....I'm gonna have a look at using these new mini 
LDR's that a few of the catalogues have ...5mm diameter, nearly perfectly 
respose matched for green LED's and only about a dollar a go...or 60 pence 
in the new money...They've got a dark resistance of about 5MegOhm, and a 
lit resistance measured in a few hundred for the sort of illumination 
you'll get from a high-intesity green at point-blank range...

chrisc..