Erwin Craps - IT Helps
Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Thu Sep 8 01:07:06 CDT 2005
John if I understand well, we gonna see you in a couple of years with your son on TV in Robot Wars? The show runs on BBC television and I believe in the states to. Where a team, useualy father and son(s) build a robot (about 1 meter in size) with weapons on it to fight with other teams robots. Looks like a lot of fun building itn and see your robot, during the clash, falling in to the pit of fire getting fried by a flam trower... You would need some good electronics, mechanical and pneumatical skills :-( And probably some military tactics to.. Erwin -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens John W. Colby Verzonden: woensdag 7 september 2005 19:42 Aan: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Onderwerp: Re: [AccessD] OT: PIC micro controllers LOL, of course you are right, just not enough to do. Controller programming might be a career path (or sideline) too though. Because I know electronics and programming I am able to do the whole thing. Plus it's just fun watching the LEDs flash and the stepper motors turn. I really want to get up to speed before my son gets too much older so I can work with him building little machines and robots. He is a smart little guy and I'm thinking that he could be the u-controller consulting side of Colby Consulting by the time he's 8 or 9. A business advisor suggested hiring your kids for tax purposes. If I could hire Robbie and charge the client $60 / hour for his time... <HUGE grin> John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:30 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: PIC micro controllers LOL John, you obviously don't have enough to keep you busy: children, book writing, framework conversion to .Net, etc. I think you need a hobby! <VBG> Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:12 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com; Tech - Database Advisors Inc. Subject: [AccessD] OT: PIC micro controllers Is anyone here playing or working with PIC Microcontrollers? I have been interested in controller applications forever (in my previous life I was into electronics), and in fact I designed a vending machine while I was working down in Mexico that used a Z-World SBC. I have discovered that you can request engineering samples of these little beauties (PIC u controllers) and am starting to gather the stuff to program them. I was just wondering if anyone else does this stuff. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com