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Title: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 20:09:08
Not....

Look at this for a bodge
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2404.JPG)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: VXL V6 on 14 March 2008, 20:11:28
Oh blimey! I've got a 'breadboard' for prototyping somewhere.... perhaps I should send it down to you!!!

 ;D
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Martin_1962 on 14 March 2008, 20:16:13
You should have used a strip board PCB!!!!
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Post by: miggy on 14 March 2008, 20:17:39
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Not....

Look at this for a bodge
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2404.JPG)

What is it TB??
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Entwood on 14 March 2008, 20:18:10
electronics or spaghetti ?????

:)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 20:20:04
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Oh blimey! I've got a 'breadboard' for prototyping somewhere.... perhaps I should send it down to you!!!

 ;D
So have I, in the shed. On the shelf, right under where the shed has started leaking :(
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 20:21:38
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You should have used a strip board PCB!!!!
The intention was to use breadboard, as only temporary.  When that didn't work, I was about to etch a pcb (no vero in the house, or if there is I can't find it), couldn't find the ferric chloride stuff :(
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 20:21:56
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Not....

Look at this for a bodge
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2404.JPG)

What is it TB??
EPROM programmer.
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: bertiecbx550 on 14 March 2008, 20:27:09
whats that do then?
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 20:28:18
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whats that do then?
Programs EPROMS.
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: bertiecbx550 on 14 March 2008, 20:30:01
i think i`ll just sit in the corner with me coke and packet of cheese an onion crisps..i`m still none the wiser :-[
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Debs. on 14 March 2008, 20:34:09
`Looks like the electrickery-spider`s been makin` webbies!  ;D
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Big_Al on 14 March 2008, 20:37:35
Got a Big bag of cable ties if you want em!
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: MikeDundee on 14 March 2008, 20:41:15
Looks good to me :y.....does that mean you have to start again then ::)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Martin_1962 on 14 March 2008, 21:07:43
I found some strip board in the garage yesterday, I use small bits to mount pickups on locos as well
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: amigov6 on 14 March 2008, 21:09:23
Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/
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Post by: Entwood on 14 March 2008, 21:12:22
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: raximax on 14 March 2008, 21:22:21
looks good to me you just need to clean the joints and trim and reflow the spikes and it will look even better. dose it fly???
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 21:23:05
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
thats 2 words you dont hear in the same sentence since craplins tried to become a computer firm (and failed, and now seems to struggle for a direction).

Said EPROM is now programmed, so this bodge is no longer required and will be on its way to landfill soon....
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Jimbob on 14 March 2008, 21:24:57
Question is....what is on said Prom?

Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Entwood on 14 March 2008, 21:26:29
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
thats 2 words you dont hear in the same sentence since craplins tried to become a computer firm (and failed, and now seems to struggle for a direction).

Said EPROM is now programmed, so this bodge is no longer required and will be on its way to landfill soon....


Totally agree .. but since Tandy's went there are very few places left ... just a few independents, so you end up fighting the Maplins of this world and hopefully eventually get the bits you need.

:(
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 21:28:30
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
thats 2 words you dont hear in the same sentence since craplins tried to become a computer firm (and failed, and now seems to struggle for a direction).

Said EPROM is now programmed, so this bodge is no longer required and will be on its way to landfill soon....


Totally agree .. but since Tandy's went there are very few places left ... just a few independents, so you end up fighting the Maplins of this world and hopefully eventually get the bits you need.

:(
And Maplins run the risk of going same way as Tandy, as they have the same fascination with computers and disco lights, rather than electronics bits  >:(
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: theowletman on 14 March 2008, 21:29:22
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Not....

Look at this for a bodge
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2404.JPG)
That reminds me - short circuit 2 is on over the weekend.
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: VXL V6 on 14 March 2008, 21:32:17
I've got a sneaky suspicion I know which Eprom you've been reprogramming........  ;)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Pete Elite on 14 March 2008, 21:33:31

  The last time i'd seen something like that it had just blown up :o ;D ;D.
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 21:40:49
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I've got a sneaky suspicion I know which Eprom you've been reprogramming........  ;)
Really?  Coz I have no idea what I'm doing ;D
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 14 March 2008, 21:55:34
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
thats 2 words you dont hear in the same sentence since craplins tried to become a computer firm (and failed, and now seems to struggle for a direction).

Said EPROM is now programmed, so this bodge is no longer required and will be on its way to landfill soon....

You dont want to do that........shove your creation in a white pvc box......fill it with resin........put a nice label on it saying eprom programmer and flog it on fleabay.......jobs a goodun  :y :D
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 21:57:37
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Can it walk on it's own? Does it bite? :-/


It'll walk itself to maplins.co.uk and jump on a breadboard if it has any latent intelligence .... :)
thats 2 words you dont hear in the same sentence since craplins tried to become a computer firm (and failed, and now seems to struggle for a direction).

Said EPROM is now programmed, so this bodge is no longer required and will be on its way to landfill soon....

You dont want to do that........shove your creation in a white pvc box......fill it with resin........put a nice label on it saying eprom programmer and flog it on fleabay.......jobs a goodun  :y :D
THats confirmed my suspicion that taxi drivers are all crooks ;D.  Or if the one Wednesday night is anything to go by, Colin McRae has reincarnated ;D

BTW TD, my pressie arrived, thanks :y
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Jay w on 14 March 2008, 21:59:10
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i think i`ll just sit in the corner with me coke and packet of cheese an onion crisps..i`m still none the wiser :-[

do you mind if i share with you......

looks clever but bugger me if i know what it does

EPROM = Electronic Programmable Read Only Memory...is that right???
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: amigov6 on 14 March 2008, 22:01:48
I'm still completely lost. I've got a breadboard & a serrated knife to go with it. I feel old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 March 2008, 22:11:29
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i think i`ll just sit in the corner with me coke and packet of cheese an onion crisps..i`m still none the wiser :-[

do you mind if i share with you......

looks clever but bugger me if i know what it does

EPROM = Electronic Programmable Read Only Memory...is that right???
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (normally UV light to erase, hence window on such chips)
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable PROM

Technically this programmer is for EEPROMS.

So that heap of wires is for putting new software and/or data (eg, fuel map) onto one of the Omega ECUs ::)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Matchless on 14 March 2008, 22:23:56
TB, You should have used a professional Electronics Engineer to build that for you. I happen to know of a couple that are shortly to be out of work.

PS, you missed the Write Only Memory as invented by Burroughs.
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: VXL V6 on 14 March 2008, 22:37:57
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TB, You should have used a professional Electronics Engineer to build that for you. I happen to know of a couple that are shortly to be out of work.

PS, you missed the Write Only Memory as invented by Burroughs.

Now there's a blast from the past, I started in IT working for a third party maintenance company who's Director and most of the engineers were X Borroughs / Sperry / Convergent Tech / Unisys engineers.... I've spent many hours (usually early hours of the morning!) messing about with A5 and A10 Mainframes  ::)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: HerefordElite on 14 March 2008, 23:05:50
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whats that do then?
Programs EPROMS.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
pmsl
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2008, 23:59:35
That's too good for landfill.

Chuck it up into a tree. It's nearly spring. Something's bound to nest in it!  ;D

Well, that ain't going to program a 27c256, so it's not the MV6's map. :-/

Kevin
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: Bandit127 on 15 March 2008, 07:25:55
When you're done programming your EEPROM, try it in your GPS. That many 5cm antenna all in the same place should boost your reception a treat  :)
Title: Re: Another quality TheBoy production...
Post by: TheBoy on 15 March 2008, 08:53:27
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That's too good for landfill.

Chuck it up into a tree. It's nearly spring. Something's bound to nest in it!  ;D

Well, that ain't going to program a 27c256, so it's not the MV6's map. :-/

Kevin
 
I have a proper programmer for 27 series (though have to boot off a DOS disk to use), though not sure it can do 32kB chips....