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12 04 06 17:37Just a reminder...
...there are only slightly over six shopping days left before my birthday (April 20 for those who missed the factoid). Feel absolutely free to buy me something from
Amazon, or contact me directly and I will provide you with my Paypal account information. ;)
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04 04 06 20:39Why you should just go ahead and give all your life information to Amazon
Have I lost my fucking mind? No. REALLY.
Why you should just go ahead and give all your life information to Amazon
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26 04 06 21:01Proton Geeks: the site all Proton users must see
When I was researching my purchase of a PIC micro BASIC compiler I discovered the Proton Geeks web site dedicated to the Crownhill Proton compiler, and thanks in part to the efforts of users like this it gave a lot of weight to my decision to go with Proton's complier. While the site is not flush and laden with every code frag you could ever dream of, what is there is carefully crafted and extremely well done. There are projects and tutorials on some remarkably sophisticated subjects like playing back WAV files from an SD card, or using a PIC as a MIDI controller, and they have some software available in the form of system plugins or standalone apps that can really make development a breeze, such as the GLCD bitmap creation tool or the code frag library manager. All in all, absolutely must-see stuff for anyone using Proton.
Proton Geeks
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12 04 06 17:44Homemade PCBs done very well
I remember my first PCB, made with press-on traces and a Radio Shack etching kit. Rough work, but by the 3rd board I got pretty damn good. Today, I couldn't imagine drawing or pressing traces on a PCB since there are so many better ways, but I still can appreciate etching my own board. I have been looking for a cheap and effective way of doing limited production prototyping, and this is the best looking method I have ever found short of photoetching.
Toner Transfer System
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