Petri Pellinen wrote: > just to lighten the mood here with all the talk about doing > the taxes and so forth... I thought to amuse you with > something totally ridiculous. > > Here's a pic of of a prototype of a wonderful new peripheral for the > QL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrip/5118906714/ > > And yes, it actually does something. This bad boy can display > a byte decoded as BCD on its glorious two digit LED display: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrip/5118293873/ > > Showing the result of "poke 99072,66" :-D Nice!
> Learning electronics with the QL is loads of fun. There was a > *lot* to learn for a software guy just to be able to do this > one simple thing in hardware. Now that the hard part of > interfacing with the QL is halfway there (no reads yet, just > writes...) rest of the way to a fully working ethernet > adapter should be easy ;-) Really looking forward to > replacing pretty much all of the 74xx logic circuitry with a > single Xilinx CPLD and starting to work towards hooking this > baby to an Arduino microcontroller. Next week's agenda is > building a JTAG adapter for the Xilinx chip so that I can > program it. Whoops, need to learn Verilog first. Well, that's > part of the fun :) If I had the time I would like to do such self-study experiments too. Keep on going! Cheers'Urs _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
