PLAN B analog blog

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> [mailto:PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of (i 
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> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:44 AM
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> Subject: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Milton thangs...
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> In the next day or so I'm going to be posting a photo of the 
> prototype Milton engine.  Warnng you ahead of time, there's 
> not a lot to look at - and this is a very good thing.  
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> Currently we have all counting functions operational 
> (start/stop, hold, reset, obedient clock, manual advance) and 
> are now attacking VC direction, VC gate and skip step - and 
> there's only about 15 parts required to do all of  this!  
> Compare that to the Milton 1 at over 150 parts for less 
> functionality and you'll understand my excitement.  More jam 
> for less money - that doens't happen all too often.
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> The addition of VC direction and VC gate will add a whopping
> (not) four parts to the melange, three of them caps (!)  as 
> we've opted for the powerful MAX1111 octal 8 bit serial A to 
> D for the direction and gate processing - a single A to D 
> chip which multiplexes eight discrete analog inputs and only 
> spends one of the processor's I/O's.  This is the beauty of 
> working with processors - additional features which would 
> previously require much hardware become instead a few lines 
> of code.  Everything from Midi control to switch debouncing 
> can be done with S/W. 
> And until we're at the point that onboard RAM usage becomes 
> critical, adding this code isabsolutely free to the end user.  
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> The entire Miiton routine however should take less than 1K of 
> RAM - so we don't see any problems whatsoever. This is going 
> to be one heck of a joybox when it's done.
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> - P
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