2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
4:06 p.m.
In article <20060202225134.F0C4A8C00A4 at mini-me.trailing-edge.com>,
shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) writes:
There are a lot of things to build that are not
"computers" in the
box-that-sits-on-a-desk-with-disk-storage-and-CRT-and-keyboard realm,
but are interesting electronics.
Lots of fun is to be had playing with microcontrollers for all sorts of
purposes.
Analog computers are always imminently hackable. Try building a circuit
for integrating the Lorentz equations for example. Turn a knob, and you're
tweaking the constants!
Don't forget things like building your own earthquake detector or
weather station. I have a kit book for these sorts of projects. They
are fun, cool to integrate with a uP for data recording/analysis and
are easy to build with low-cost components and electromechanical gear.
My interest in this sort of electronics is in making weird
electrokinetic sculpture type machines. Survival Research
Laboratories, anyone?
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