Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
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? Wow, that IS unreasonably cool and awesome! Congratulations. I read the "History" page too. Very nice.?
I had a "rolling ball sculpture" phase around my mid-teens, which got started in a 1985-or-so trip to Netherlands, one of my first trips outside of UK; where they had a big rolling ball sculpture on the top floor of the Evoluon museum in?Eindhoven. I stood awestruck for hours watching it. So when I got back to the UK I started my rolling ball phase.?
I used to go past building sites and they'd have a pile of discarded wire?offsets in the skip outside from the electrical?wiring. It was usually solid-core stuff and the conducting wires typically 1 to 1.5mm diameter. So you could strip off the insulation then use this stuff to build tracks for the rolling ball sculpture, by soldering all the wire together. Of course I could not afford steel balls but 1-inch glass marbles from the toy shops worked fine.?
I had a lot of fun with different tricks; and also designed a rolling ball XOR-gate then built a couple of them and some other "gates" into a 1-bit binary full adder. Believe it or not I went on to design a rolling-ball 8-bit CPU, and with RAM, punched card reader, output display indicators... of course I never built anything beyond the 1-bit full adder.?
Your website Joe, almost makes me wanna start soldering those wire sculptures again, build me a clock or something... but that could be the end of any firmware developments for a long time so better help me resist temptation.?
> Hans has no place in this problem, he is also a victim; but a victim with no say on either side.
Billy is completely correct of course, but every cloud has a silver lining, in this case pseudo-personified by Joe's awesome clock and the momentary trip down memory lane.?
73 Hans G0UPL
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