[simpits-tech] I really should have seen this coming...

[Sean Galbraith]

But, but, but.... 

Wow... aint the internet great for crushing brilliant ideas?

In other news... still getting aftershocks of up to 5.4 here in
Christchurch....  means working from home, and writing VB.NET stuff for
my sim :)

SeanG

-----Original Message-----
From: simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org
[mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org] On Behalf Of Gene Buckle
Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 9:24 a.m.
To: simpits-tech at simpits.org
Subject: [simpits-tech] I really should have seen this coming...


Ok, so I get all hyped up about my 16 channel output board and how I'm 
going to make life easier for a bunch of people, etc, etc, etc, 
ad-nauseum.

It's Arduino based (http://www.arduino.cc if you've been living under a 
rock) and easy to use.

I was researching how to talk to an MCP23S17 in order to design a 
diode-less massive input board.

Then I find this.

http://macetech.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&produ
cts_id=23

64 channels of I/O that fits right on top of an Arduino Duemilanove
board.

$18.

You hear that sound?  It's my forehead slamming into my desk top. 
Repeatedly.

You can get an Arduino Duemilanove from eBay for about $20.  More if you

buy one from those crazed digital crack dealers over at SparkFun 
(http://www.sparkfun.com, $29.95 + shipping).

You can stack two of those Centipede boards on to a single Arduino
board, 
resulting in 128 channels of I/O (mix and match in any form) for less
than 
$75.  Assembled.

I'm going to shelve work on my 16 channel board - there's no real point
to 
it any longer.  I'll likely consume the boards on various random
projects. 
I'm going to order a couple of those Centipede boards and update the 
firmware I wrote for the Gazoutta16 to work with it.

Note that if you also go get a Mux Shield and another Arduino board (the

Mux Shield and Centipede both use pins 4 and 5 so you can't share them
on 
a single Arduino) you can get 48 10 bit analogs going too.  Using PPJoy 
(creates virtual joystick devices) and it's accompanying SDK, you can 
pretty much do whatever you like at prices that essentially take the bar

to entry and run it through a wire extrusion die a few hundred times. :)

g.


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