Chip with simple program for Toy

Would you (or any other reader without commercial bias) please
recommend an inexpensive and reliable vendor for electronics
parts for projects such as this one

Well, you could try Radio Shack, but they seem to have less and less
parts available nowadays.

For mail order, I can think of three, but they may require a minimum
order.

www.digikey.com
www.jameco.com
www.mouser.com

Also, I have a few items for sale on my
website which may be of some use.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/sale.htm

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:40:08 -0800, RL_Grossi_2005 wrote:

Good News!

Do you know how simple it is to go to Heaven after this
life has ended?

It's impossible. How can you go anywhere when you're dead?

Let go of your devils.

Life isn't supposed to end. It's the Original Denial that caused
all of the death. You can redeem yourself, and actually Manifest
Heaven On Earth!
http://www.godchannel.com/superiority.html

Love,
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:54:50 +0000, Lord Garth wrote:

"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message

Supposedly, "SN" stands for "Silicon Network". M is usually Motorola, or
used to be.

I recall SN as the Texas Instruments prefix Rich...
http://www.interfacebus.com/logic_prefix.html

Well, yeah, and TI decided on the letters "SN" because they stand for
"Silicon Network." I read that in some TI blurb, so I thought it was like
a given.

Sorry.
Rich

 

[mirach]

Robert
I tried to send you a reply to your email but it came back as
un-deliverable. Send me another email and an address that i can send to
and I'll send you some info.

Thanks

 

[Robert Monsen]

edna wrote:
<snip spam>

And here I thought it was another of those LED threads. A lighted
wallet? What will they think of next? However, 6W seems a bit much.

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

 

[John Popelish]

Robert Monsen wrote:

edna wrote:
snip spam

And here I thought it was another of those LED threads. A lighted
wallet? What will they think of next? However, 6W seems a bit much.

By a factor of about 1000.

--
John Popelish

 

[John Fields]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:13:34 -0800, Robert Monsen
<rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote:

and a partridge in a pair tree.

Actually, those winbond SPI voice chips are very cheap,

---
Got a part number and a price?
---


--
John Fields

 

[Lord Garth]

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Do you have a special on that this week?

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[Lord Garth]

"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:54:50 +0000, Lord Garth wrote:
"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message

Supposedly, "SN" stands for "Silicon Network". M is usually Motorola,
or
used to be.

I recall SN as the Texas Instruments prefix Rich...
http://www.interfacebus.com/logic_prefix.html

Well, yeah, and TI decided on the letters "SN" because they stand for
"Silicon Network." I read that in some TI blurb, so I thought it was like
a given.

Sorry.
Rich

Do you recall TI's multivoltage (probably PMOS) UV EPROM, the TMS 2716?
TMS stood for Too Many Supplies rather than Texas (Instruments) Memory
Systems.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:54:03 -0800, Robert Monsen wrote:

Peter Michelson wrote:
That looks like a handy circuit that could be adapted to my application. I
might fiddle around with it and compare to the others. Thanks.

Do they sell any kits for this that include the mechanical pink flamingo?



Sadly no. The R/C pink flamingo is destined to remain one of a kind.

Here Ya Go! ;-)

http://www.animalmakers.com/Secure/RigsPuppetsFolder/BirdsFolder/Birds2.html

Cheers!
Rich

 

[mirach]

Thanks Gentlemen..even though you lost me early on I find your
discussions facinating. I'll just stay out of the way

 

[Robert Monsen]

Rich Grise wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:54:03 -0800, Robert Monsen wrote:


Peter Michelson wrote:

That looks like a handy circuit that could be adapted to my application. I
might fiddle around with it and compare to the others. Thanks.

Do they sell any kits for this that include the mechanical pink flamingo?



Sadly no. The R/C pink flamingo is destined to remain one of a kind.


Here Ya Go! ;-)

http://www.animalmakers.com/Secure/RigsPuppetsFolder/BirdsFolder/Birds2.html

Cheers!
Rich

That is totally high class. The one I got was built out of pink mesh
screen. Only the neck and body move. However, it has several strings of
LEDs in it that flash on and off. It's eyes also flash, if I remember
correctly.

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

 

[Robert Monsen]

mirach wrote:

Hello
I am a repair tech for medical equipment and am needing to make some
test boxes for simple location of the number of a wire that has been
cut off in a harnesses with as many as 256 wires in them.

These harnesses have a plug on one end and the cut-off unlabled wires
at the other end . Up untill now I have used what is called a "light
box" these boxes have a plug to plug the harness into.. 128 or 256leds
on them and an internal battery and a lead so that when you touch one
of the wires with the lead one of the leds will light showing which pin
on the plug is associated with that wire (each wire is then labled)

Now with what I would like to build.
Since you have to look at these wires through a microscope it is very
time consuming to look up from the scope to see the led every time.
What I would like to do is replace these leds with something that
announces the number like "21" "102" "128" etc. with a voice this
would make labeling much faster.
Does anyone know of a pre-made IC? or EEprom? that would have 128 or so
individual areas that could store the voice message for the number and
be random accessed. would it need some sort of special trigger? As im
sure you can tell my knowlege is limited in this area, I am just
starting to work on this project and anyones ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

You can buy digital voice recorder chips from windbond
(http://tinyurl.com/4y4rp) that allow you to record some amount of
voice. You can cue the voice at any point. Thus, you could record
yourself saying 1,2,3.. and then cause the chip to replay the individual
digits on command. You control it using SPI from a microcontroller. They
go up to 240s of recording time, so you could conceivably record all 256
numbers, but individual digits are probably easier. You can buy them at
digikey or futurlec. I'm sure you can also get pre-recorded voices, but
I didn't spend the time searching.

As to encoding the data, you could use individual multiplexer chips.
However, you could also get 8 octal buffers with high impedance outputs.
Tie each input to a correponding buffer pin, and tie the outputs
together into a bus, all bit zeros together, ones together, etc. Then,
select the buffer chips one at a time, and read the bits for that buffer
in parallel using 8 pins on your microcontroller. Once you have a hit,
just program the SPI device to output the proper voice codes. 16 bits on
the final device, 8 for input, 8 for output. Plus, of course, the 3 or 4
bits for SPI to control the recorder.

The total part count for this solution would be the voice chip, the
microcontroller, the buffers, and such. You could run it off of a 9V
battery, or use a set of rechargable batteries, and build a recharger
unit for it. Alternately, if it didn't need to be portable, you could
run it off of a wall wart. Total cost would be around $30 for parts, I
think, including PCB and enclosure, depending on the cost of the plug.
If you were to mass-produce these, you could probably make them for $10
each.

I'll work up an estimate for 10 if you want...

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

 

[John Fields]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:04 -0500, "Peter Michelson"
<pete77r@hotmail.com> wrote:

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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Is there a more specific term for "driver"? I am not familiar with a
component by that name.

---
The driver would be the device/circuit sending the information to the
flip-flop which would cause it to flip or flop.
---

manner. I imagine that this circuit is functionally similar to one that
would drive marquis lights, except that instead of using a timer chip, it
is
user-driven.

---
"Marquee" lights?^)
---

Indeed =) One wonders what, exactly, a "marquis light" would be.


I'll reply, tomorrow or the day after, with a schematic which will
solve your problem.

That's very kind.

---

+-------------+
| 4017 |
| +-------+ |
VCC>--[100K]--O--> | +--|MR Q3|--+
| | |
O-----+--------|CP0 Q2|--[R3]--[LED3>]--+
| | | | |
| | | Q1|--[R2]--[LED2>]--+
[0.1] [1M] | | |
| | +-O|CP1 Q0|--[R1]--[LED1>]--+
| | | +-------+ |
GND>---------------+-----+-----+----------------------------+

Vcc - 2V
R1 = R2 = R3 = -----------
0.002A


All LEDs = HLMP4700


--
John Fields

 

[Peter Michelson]

"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message
newsan.2005.02.23.22.06.20.448693@example.net...

Do they sell any kits for this that include the mechanical pink
flamingo?



Sadly no. The R/C pink flamingo is destined to remain one of a kind.

Here Ya Go! ;-)


http://www.animalmakers.com/Secure/RigsPuppetsFolder/BirdsFolder/Birds2.html

Cheers!
Rich

I can think of no better way to spend $7,750 ;-)
Peter

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:48:18 +0000, sammytaylor wrote:

How do I find somebody to do build a small STAMP project? I want to build a
small timer safe.

I posted this earlier and received a reply from somebody claiming to be Rich
Grise. But when I wrote him he denied having responded and said he was too
busy.

Anybody interested in making some money building something with a stamp?

I didn't deny that I responded. What happened was that I was kind of
surprised to see your email, because I wasn't expecting to be taken
seriously. Then, I tried to as politely as possible, explain why I'm
probably not suited to the task.

My apologies if I've misled you.

Thanks,
Rich

 

Peter Michelson wrote:

First question: can I use more than one stage of the
LED sequencer to prolong the duration of an LED being on?
For example, if I want the first LED to stay on twice as
long as the 2nd and 3rd LEDs, is it sufficient to connect
the first two outputs to the first LED, and then only one
output to each of the other two? In other words, is it a
problem to connect two outputs together without using diodes?

Yes, it is a problem, you need diodes. See my traffic light
circuit for an example:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page10.htm#traffic.gif

-Bill

 

[Robert Monsen]

Peter Michelson wrote:

That looks like a handy circuit that could be adapted to my application. I
might fiddle around with it and compare to the others. Thanks.

Do they sell any kits for this that include the mechanical pink flamingo?

Sadly no. The R/C pink flamingo is destined to remain one of a kind.

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

 

[DirtySickPig]

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DSP
YOU SPAM THIS GROUP MORE THAN ANYONE.

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Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:54:03 -0800, Robert Monsen wrote:


Peter Michelson wrote:

That looks like a handy circuit that could be adapted to my
application. I
might fiddle around with it and compare to the others. Thanks.

Do they sell any kits for this that include the mechanical pink
flamingo?



Sadly no. The R/C pink flamingo is destined to remain one of a kind.


Here Ya Go! ;-)


http://www.animalmakers.com/Secure/RigsPuppetsFolder/BirdsFolder/Birds2.html

Cheers!
Rich


That is totally high class. The one I got was built out of pink mesh
screen. Only the neck and body move. However, it has several strings of
LEDs in it that flash on and off. It's eyes also flash, if I remember
correctly.

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.