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[Jack]

I'm working on this robotiv arm

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

That's cool

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

It's a great time to be a hobbyist

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Lots of cool stuff out there to mess with

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I bet Jack is trying to create some sort of robotic back scratcher

 

[Jack]

 

[Jack]

Its fun to be making this stuff. Just going to be a continuing hobby. I have much materials to work with

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

My dad worked in a steel mill and he says how things are different these days

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

A lot smaller and cheaper

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Back then you'd need industrial computers with some sort of custom made serial board to be able to control stuff

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

And a handful of IT guys to make it all work plus engineers

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Now you got all that inside these arduinos

 

[Jack]

Now you can do it on your workbench. The coding is remarkably simple and encourages more exploation to do things with.

 

[Jack]

exactly

 

[Jack]

so I have 15 different processors, all of which sync with each other. it's pretty amazing

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

daisychaining

 

[Jack]

yep

 

[Jack]

do you remember the timex sinclair?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I've heard of it

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

They mention it on vintage PC videos sometimes

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

It's a pocket computer I think

 

[Jack]

I had one. It was really good at sequencing and triggering switches on and off. It worked with FORTRAN cide,

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

No that's something else

 

[Jack]

I used it in high school to run lights and sound for parties

 

[Jack]

it was a mini laptop

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

It's using the serial port

 

[Jack]

it hooked up to USENET

 

[Jack]

well it was 1200 baud back then lol

 

[Jack]

remember AOL?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

First modem I messed up with a 2400 baud