[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Paul Maddox" <P.Maddox at signal.qinetiq.com> wrote:
>Harry,
>
>> Yes... again my lament is that it is getting harder
>> and more expensive to make your own (with the newer
>> technology).
>
>disagree..
>
>>  Hacking an existing unit is often a good
>> way to proceed.  I can hack (for instance) a Matrix6R
>> into a guitar synth... but hacking a newer machine
>> would
>> be quite hard, unless I had the ability to get inside
>> their technology.
>
>so why hack something?
>Why not buy yourself a DSP module and roll your own, exactly as you want it?
>
>> F*CKING CELL PHONE
>
>hehe, that said, there have been some great advances in batteries, displays
>and low power micros because of it.

Maybe so, but way too many people can't drive for SH!T when they are on those
damned things.  Several European and American studies have shown that people
who drive while using a cell phone are just as likely to be involved in a
collision as a _drunk_.  And that goes for hands free or not, the studies note.




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