[sdiy] Re: LVM, or not

[john mahoney]

> sure I'm with you! I just thought 5V modular wasn't so popular.

Cool! My comment was kind of stupid, anyway. :-/

There seems to be some interest. I'm just collecting people's thoughts
on it, looking into where the problems might be (e.g., transistor
ladder filter), etc. Hopefully I (we) can start designing LVM modules
in Spring 2005. I've got plenty going on for the next few/several
months, though.


> it would be nice to make small modules with DACs and micro onboard
> and we could just send some data on serial bus to all modules to
controll
> them. The same interface would be used on DSP based modules, and
> all of them would connect the same way.

I've been having the same thought. Use distributed intelligence, since
PICs/etc are so cheap. There could even be helper modules to add
intelligence to "dumb" modules -- complete with level translation -- 
but I'm getting way ahead of myself.


> Of course, all inputs and outputs would go into routing matrix :)

Yes, a *low* voltage matrix. ;-)
--
john