Counting to 1,000,000

[Brisky]

162,740

Oh, we have those, too!

But yeah, I do have "tinkerclass" later, wich I think is quite fun. We're supposed to get theoretical lessons about the power grid, but the teacher beliefs that we could do that at home just aswell, soo he just lets us mess around with all sorts of electronics related stuff there, and encourages us to bring our own.

Just to bad that I also have to study for maths, during that... :c

[HellEye]

162,741

Electronics seems pretty fun to me!
I had something like that and it was one of the better classes, albeit not that useful because it was just logic gates and stuff, not voltages and complicated things

[Brisky]

162,742

Well, yeah, you need to know how to straighten out crooked volts and untangle ohm's knots first, in order to not blow up your microcontrollers, but that's not all that hard.

Ohms law is the only thing that you need for 90% of the time, and it's quite easy to use.

Just take R = U / I,  U = I x R,  R=V/I

Let's say you wanna run a led from a 9 volt source, but the led is rater for 30 mA @ 2 volts, all you have to do is take the 2 volts off the 9 volts, wich makes 7, and then divide that 7000mV by the 30mA, wich makes 233,3 ohms. And, that right there is the resistance value you need to use to make the led burn without letting the smoke out!

[HellEye]

162,743

I know that much from high school physics
But okay, I've got an LED I can turn on. Now I need an idea about when I should turn it on. What should it do.
It was fun for school because they just told me "hook up this LED to this output" and it was fun

[Brisky]

162,744

I dunna... Don't really have much ideas rogarding to that either...

I do have something I'd want to try out, if I can get a speaker unit to work, tho! >

[HellEye]

162,745

Want to go beep boop?
(Got Spanish, can't chat much now)

[Brisky]

162,746

Yes!

I want to go lots of random beep-boops, in a very small and concealable package that I can hide somewhere and make people go absolutely bananas! >

[George]

162747
time for forodo

[HellEye]

162,748

I remember when my friend and I leArNed about the beep function in C++. We played mortal kombat theme on the tiny PC speaker
I even made a small library so we can use notes not frequencies.

[Brisky]

162,749

Wow, that's pretty cool!

I've been contemplating about doing a similair thing once I learn more about microcontrollers and speaker units...

[HellEye]

162,750

Doing it in C++ or java, or even assembly for that matter isn't that hard. No idea how to do it outside of an operating system though

[George]

162751
Mechanical tools can be used to replicate melodies and such really well, specialized arrays of wires and plates mainly.

[Brisky]

162,752

@Hl

As far as I know, basically the same. Only instead of running the programme on a computer, you upload it into a microcontroller that then runs the programme for you.

The output signals from the programme will then come out of the assigned pins, where you can do stuff with them, like operate a speaker or an LCD screen, or something. (Although it's possible that you may have to use transistors to amplify the fairly weak signals first)

[George]

612752
took me a sec to get why you used an I there

[Brisky]

612753

Was a lowercase lima, actually...