26 Dec
2013
26 Dec
'13
4:08 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Philip Pemberton <philpem at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
On 23/12/13 08:49, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I was thinking about using it with Celestia for navigating around the Milky Way.
It's fun finally getting some practical
experience on the real
hardware and to see the sample code I wrote five years ago for Phil
Pemberton's library in action.
You know, I still haven't found a use for my LPFKs. I hacked together a
version of Conway's "game of life", but that was it... In my case I used an FTDI USB RS232 cable and a MAX233
to connect it to
a PC. The reset pin you mentioned was left floating (IIRC).
I can see leaving it floating. I was posting the question because the
original codeninja page called it +5v, and the early discussions here
called it "+5 through a pull-up?".
One of these days I'll think of a use for them...
one of these days...
I've also considered using it as an input panel for one of the players
for the Starship bridge simulator Artemis.
-ethan