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deanh77 Jun 9, 2005

PIC like a microntroller? sounds a little over-the-top, I don't know. my digital electronics ain't that great. this doesn't sound that complicated though. maybe find a good book on electronics from...

yay Jun 9, 2005

haha yeah man its one geek hobby to another kinda frustrating though i have so many unfished projects PIC, programmable IC, small little guy I can flash with some assembler I've done embedded w...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

First tep would be to look for some ICs designed to measure voltage. or find an old digital multimeter and hack it. I'm all about the hardware hacks.

yay yayOG 2004

Ok yeah. I kind of have the idea already....

I'm taking the input of a piezo (measures velocity, 'how hard' it's been touched/hit) so that is in voltage

Take that line of voltage, sample with an A->D chip. Then that value needs to be pumped into the rs232 line by the PIC with some event messages, like start of text, end of text, the command, the value

Again what makes this easy is its a one shot.

I got all these other extended features I want too, but I gotta get this at least work first

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