RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Laser mouse based DRO - Stand Alone ?

Alan,
I can understand that, but I still keep the stuff around as many like
the idea of "cheap" and you can pick up an older computer for nothing
these days (I have a bout 3 pallet loads that I keep for spares). It
is also a good way to be introduced to C as one can follow the coding
to see how it is done. This is where I learned the little (darnd
little) bit of c myself. As for a LOT of people, yes; I have had
contacts litterly from around the world. When ever I get a new
contact, one of the questions is where they are located? Kind of like
collecting QSL cards :-) About the only major land masses that I
have not heard from are South America and the Russian continents.
Other than that, the globe is pretty well covered!

As for pics, I'm looking forward to that as I have been asked to get
involved in a project that will use one. This should be "fun" as I
will be starting from scratch and have to develop the coding
myself. I plan on breaking it down into (real) simple steps and make
it work that way. The nice thing is I can do a small piece of code,
get it working and then re-program the chip with the next step.
Should be interesting!

Art
At 03:46 PM 8/23/2005, you wrote:

>Hi Art, Ron,
>
>He may be thinking of a more "self contained" unit. A PIC and a 2 - 4 line
>LCD display could be quite compact! A PIC could probably also watch the
>encoder lines directly, if one didn't want to use the U.S. Digital part.
>
>And then again, it's fun to design/build PIC projects! Amazingly powerful
>little guys!
>
>Thanks for the website! I'm sure a LOT of people have made use of it!
>
>Alan KM6VV

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