Hmmm sounds kinda familiar, im going trough this cycle every few years, usually when im employed i packrat stuff especially microwave parts, machinery and test gear to build up my lab until my wife throws out divorce threats, then i lose my job and start selling stuff off left and right to make ends meet, usually when i reduced my stuff a bunch i find another job and the cycle starts again, its really easy to be a packrat when you are a design engineer especially for a large player, most distributors and manufacturers are very generous with free samples and tools, usually once a month you get a email with offers for some samples or a free development kit and usually i reply :) so stuff gathers up fast !
The last really useful thing was a PSOC kit from cypress, i just love those little mixed signal microcontrollers, they are very easy to programm, the C compiler is cheap and the devices are cheap and versatile not to mention they have devices with USB, the last project i did was a USB switch controller, well im still kinda working on the firmware for that :)
John Miles <jmiles@...> wrote:
Heh... I tend to go for a couple of years at a time without doing much
electronics work at all, selling all my gear on eBay and going back to the
real world to rebuild my finances. Eventually I feel compelled to return to
the workbench, where I spend a lot of time and money answering questions
that could, frankly, be better resolved for free in a library.
I don't recommend this approach to others, especially those with families
and other real-world responsibilities. :)
-- john, KE5FX
one problem i find is that the market for stuff like
this is soo small that
it isnt worth my time.
i cant afford to spend alot of time on things that have
very little return
at oner time i had enough money to play for long
periods of time
that isnt the case any longer im not as fotunate as john miles.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Miles
To: hp_agilent_equipment@...
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: [hp_agilent_equipment] HP8565 hacking/mods
Hi John,
Yes I have seen that unit - I was pondering something more
sophisticated. Along the lines of 100MSa/s to FPGA to digitize x,y or
if and an embedded web-server to get the data out.
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