Just a further comment on my previous comment on the New Zealand public confusing the inventiveness of its individual inhabitants with the "inventiveness" of the public collective in general, yada-yada-yada ...
(You can't do believable threading on webmail, so I've kinda lost the thread here - mi yet mi sori, sori tumas!) Oh, yeah, sonar was one of the possible applications for this idea - I had a picture in my mind of arrays building up three-dimensional pictures from phase changes resulting from switching which transceivers were one and which were not. Much, much too good for the NZ electronics manufacturers - heck, it might even see them in direct competitiion with American and European manufacturers - and winning! Now I have to move my gear into my new flat over the next few weeks and get learning VHDL and Verilog - anyone got a copy of a decent Verilog manual? U. of Cant. teaches and uses VHDL. There are no analog libraries - for inductance of course - available for VHDL - bummer! Wesley Parish http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040821092613988#c191415 The View from a Hardware Hopeful Authored by: Wesley_Parish on Sunday, August 22 2004 @ 11:04 PM EDT Oh, yes, I am that too. I had this idea way back in 1992, to redo the guitar pickup design, to get much, much more out of it than previous pickups had given the muso. My idea is relatively simple and undoubtedly can be extended to other uses, but here goes - protected by the Hardware LGPL - * Six times six independent pickup elements, one per position per string; * 0ne input channel from the plug going to the amplifier; * One output channel from the plug going to the amplifier; * Thirty-six minus one links per pickup element to the other pickup elements; * One NOT CMOS gate per pickup element link to Input Channel; * One NOT CMOS gate per pickup element link to Output Channel; * One NOT CMOS gate per pickup element link to another pickup element; * One CMOS RAM cell for each NOT CMOS gate. I was told by an AIESEC friend to get a patent on it A.S.A.P. I was partially employed as a Library Assistant at a local secondary school, which didn't pay for much. I was in the final stages of psychological recovery from my Traumatic Brain Injury, and had a massive Clinical Depression to endure. I was panicking because I had access to very little information on how to go about designing the thing and building it. I also was panicking because I had had a long, close, hard look at the patenting business, and it seemed to be weighed heavily against the smaller guy. I would have no recourse if, before I had started to make any money on it, some big TLA bruiser of a company had decided to muscle in on me and simply take the idea. A legal battle of any duration was simply not within my powers. And I could not rely on any to help in any way. It leaves a very, very bitter taste in one's mouth, to have to give up such a wonderful and promising idea. I have no idea just how far I could've taken it - humbucking coils with massive interconnectivity, multiple coil taps, builtin feedback, feedthrough, etc - it makes me delirious with excitement thinking of the possibilities. "But you can't beat Tammany Hall, can you!?!" --- finagement: The Vampire's veins and Pacific torturers stretching back through his own season. Well, cutting like a child on one of these states of view, I duck http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20040821092613988&title=Corrigendum+-+The+View+from+a+Hardware+Hopeful&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=191415#c191425 Corrigendum - The View from a Hardware Hopeful Authored by: Wesley_Parish on Sunday, August 22 2004 @ 11:34 PM EDT I should have said: One NOT CMOS gate per pickup element link from [its] Output Channel to another pickup element's Input Channel; instead of: One NOT CMOS gate per pickup element link to another pickup element; I wasn't very clear - mala mea, culpa mea! And if you really want to try it out for yourself, well, the idea's there, just take the time to give the appropriate attribution - I just wish I had the resources myself to pick it up and run with it. What really bugs me is that getting the appropriate details - impedances, resistances, etc - for the various bits and pieces, turned out to be very difficult. So I can't pass them on to anyone else. --- finagement: The Vampire's veins and Pacific torturers stretching back through his own season. Well, cutting like a child on one of these states of view, I duck "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
