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 Posted: Oct 30, 2007 - 09:06 PM |
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bluegoo wrote:
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Today I worked on the electronics for some high speed infrared proximity sensors and some sort of thingies with a PIC on it. Oh yeah... The radar thingies also use PIC. But either they are either pre-programmed or we program the binaries into the PICs using one of those high $$$ PIC programmers.
considering how much you love PICS hopefully this work will not be too stressfull! might have to remove those AVR tattoos too 
Just give me a little bit of time! I'll educate e'm. I already have a scheme to cut the testing time for the infrared proximity sensors in half - and provide parametrics testing, as well; rather then just a go-no-go test.
There are some Altera chips there. Nub I haven't gotten to really look at the PCB's yet. There in assembly right now. I'm sure they'll be coming my way in a week or so.
But I do see a lot of PICs! Thank God I don't have to write programs for them... |
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microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
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Posted: Oct 30, 2007 - 09:16 PM |
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Thank God I don't have to write programs for them...
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Posted: Oct 30, 2007 - 09:24 PM |
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SteveN wrote:
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Thank God I don't have to write programs for them...
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No, not likely... If I have the opportunity to do any programming, it'll be using an AVR. I see lots of opportunities coming my way that will let me bring in the AVR for testing purposes.
Long live the AVR!!! |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Oct 30, 2007 - 09:33 PM |
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Spreading the good word of Atmel, are you Carl ?
On the soldering: Maybe you can teach them some nice new tricks |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2007 - 10:54 PM |
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daqq wrote:
Spreading the good word of Atmel, are you Carl ?
On the soldering: Maybe you can teach them some nice new tricks
Maybe electronics tricks! But they've got it all over me with soldering...
I did my first PB-free soldering today. it isn't the soldering that is hard, it's removing the components. And, there are so many restrictions. My work bench is a PB class area. To remove a component from a PB-free PCB, I've got to go to another work bench that is PB-free.
I troubleshot about 50 PB-free boards today. That took about 3 hours. I spent the rest of the day removing defective LED and IR xmiter & xcvr LEDs. I'm about half way finished. then its back to the PB bench to run them thru testing again.
Ya got to love it!
But the soldering it quite nice. They have at least one Metcal station. I can't remember what the name of the other soldering equipment is, though. |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 12:05 AM |
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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microcarl wrote:
valusoft wrote:
Hi Carl,
You should have finished your first day at the new place. How did it go?
I have found myself a new home, I think!
Yesterday I worked on Golf Club swing radar speed monitors.
My first reading of that sentence gave me the impression that you were practising your golf swing....what a workplace...fun first, work last...go man go!
Don't forget to go home each day.
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Posted: Nov 01, 2007 - 02:28 AM |
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Koshchi wrote:
I have been programming for 30 years, I have been paid to do it for only 10.
"I've had over a dozen years of a happy marriage."
"Oh, really? When did you get married?"
"1967." |
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Posted: Nov 01, 2007 - 03:35 AM |
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Location: Sydney, Australia (Gum trees, Koalas and Kangaroos, No Edelweiss)
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there are so many restrictions.
So if you get shot can you still work in a PB free zone??  ...I guess they will need to make PB free bullets soon or the crooks will be out of business. |
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Ampertronics Pty. Ltd.
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Posted: Nov 01, 2007 - 04:26 AM |
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"I've had over a dozen years of a happy marriage."
"Oh, really? When did you get married?"
"1967."
"How long have you been married?"
"Almost long enough." |
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"It's better to catch the trapeze than test the safety net" -- RPi book
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Posted: Nov 01, 2007 - 07:32 PM |
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Carl was quite nervous when he arrived at his important job interview.
The interviewer wanted to know something about Carl's personality, so asked him "If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?"
Carl quickly replied: "The living one." |
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Posted: Nov 01, 2007 - 09:59 PM |
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"The living one."
But people talk with dead people all the time, I have seen it on telly...some of the dead people are rude though, they just ignore the converstion and say nothing... |
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Ampertronics Pty. Ltd.
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Posted: Nov 03, 2007 - 10:15 PM |
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Congrats Carl and best of luck!!!
JOHN |
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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 11:45 PM |
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Carl,
How is the new job? They got you writing software for any of those PIC's yet?  They must be keeping you busy, we don't see you here as much.
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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 11:48 PM |
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SteveN wrote:
How is the new job? They got you writing software for any of those PIC's yet? They must be keeping you busy, we don't see you here as much.
The new job seems to be going great, it's just a little lite on wages. But money really isn't everything!
I've been on the forum pretty much every day! Just as Bob Gardner, I've been following him around, giving him a hard time as often as I can... |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 11:53 PM |
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| Carl, did you notice that was post #5000? I'd say you're here, all right. Half a Cliff's worth. |
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"It's better to catch the trapeze than test the safety net" -- RPi book
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Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 11:56 PM |
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zbaird wrote:
Carl, did you notice that was post #5000? I'd say you're here, all right. Half a Cliff's worth.
And it too me twice the amount of time to get to 5,000 posts as it did for Cliff to get to 10,000 posts, too!
Cliff must type twice as fast as I do and probably has twice as much to say, that is twice as valuable as what I have to say!
Just ask all of those who I've pissed off??? |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 06:55 AM |
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zbaird wrote:
Carl, did you notice that was post #5000? I'd say you're here, all right. Half a Cliff's worth.
Doesn't the length of Carl's antenna equal the difference?
However, congratulations Carl. Your posts do increase the worth of this forum a lot.
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Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 07:11 AM |
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S-Sohn wrote:
zbaird wrote:
Carl, did you notice that was post #5000? I'd say you're here, all right. Half a Cliff's worth.
Doesn't the length of Carl's antenna equal the difference?
However, congratulations Carl. Your posts do increase the worth of this forum a lot.
Regards
Sebastian
Thanks! It's time for me to hit the sack! |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 07:03 PM |
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| Carl and Jim... can you two ham guys talk on hf or packet radio? |
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Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 10:31 PM |
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bobgardner wrote:
Carl and Jim... can you two ham guys talk on hf or packet radio?
I can do packet on 2 meters (144MHZ to 148MHZ), if I have a mind to set it all back up.
I do need to upgrade, now that everything has gone no-code. It's really sad... I passed the written General twice. But I just didn't have the drive to learn the code well enough to take the test. I really struggled with being forced to learn something I'd never use - just to join the club. I did too much of that in school! |
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Carl W. Livingston, KC5OTL
microcarl@roadrunner.com
"There are only two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared."
The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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