On 2016-Apr-14, at 7:50 PM, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Brent Hilpert
Wow, (that was quick), great job to get one of
these working.
Thanks. Quick? Actually, I've been working on it for several
years. The assembly was fairly quick. If you have all of the
parts in one place, a competent solderer should be able to build
it in a few hours.
(Well it was pretty quick from when you mentioned it here.)
I had assumed that you came across a hobbyist unit built in the 70's and was repairing
or completing it.
Sounds like that's incorrect - this is a new build from scratch?, including the
printed circuit boards?
I had actually wondered from years ago whether the design ever did work reliably, or
whether it might be the sort of magazine project where 1 in 100 might function, e.g. say,
the memory chips were an iffy proposition as image sensor. Very pleased to see one work.
(The one I assembled I had to return to the owner after assembly, we tried it one
afternoon with his IMSAI and/or with the scope interface as I recall, but after that it
was out of my purview.)
(I finally get
to see an image from a Cyclops camera - never
did from the one I assembled.)
Looks even better live. Come see it at VCF East.
(On the north-west coast here - bit of a trip to there).