[sdiy] Cool chip alert (OT: OOPic)

[Bret Truchan]

Hi!

Tony Brenke (trbrenke at yahoo.com) or Dennis Clark (dlc at verinet.com) are good 
OOPic resources.  They're very vocal on the oopic yahoo group and Dennis 
wrote a book on the OOPic that came out last year.  I don't think they'd 
necessarily be able to help with questions concerning Magnevation though.  I 
don't know if they are affiliated with it or not.

I've used the OOPic quite a bit (building robots!), including the SCP 
protocol that the new speak-jet chip uses.

If you look at the documentation of other products from Magnevation, you'll 
see that they're all pretty simple.  You don't want to scare beginner robot 
builders with lots of technical details.  However, I do agree that there 
should be some examples using SCP.  I'm sure they'll update it soon.  I have 
one on order, so as soon as it comes in, I'll give everyone an update. :-)

Cheers!
- Bret


>If you look at Magnevation's Web site, most of their products
>are things that support the OOPic controller.  I didn't realize
>this, but the OOPic company is here in town too.  I might be
>able to find out who some of these people are and get them to
>come up on this list.  You would think that if they are in town
>and are doing DIY synth stuff, I would know them, but that's the
>way a lot of the DIY and art community is around here -- surprisingly
>large, but scattered and poorly connected.  (I wish I had a good
>answer for that, but I don't.)
>

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