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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Well, I am just experimenting here.... 
I was going to design my own MM clone, but at the end of the day, I decided it was far less trouble to just use a ready-made module such as the CGCMM2. Despite the wires all over the place, this is a fully functional system, and the FIRST successful test of which, I have been writing for about one year. It is almost better then sex(almost!) that it is all working from one end to the other now. EDIT: Used to be able to put reasonably big photos up here, but no matter what, my image is being re-sized. Sorry, folks....  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| MOBI Guru  Joined: 02/12/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
Is that a question or are you just bragging because your work bench is infinitely tidier than mine? David M. |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
Hi Grogster, Ok it looks very impressive but I am curious as to what it does! I see your little 'Serial test message' module on the left. What happens when you push what look like the big buttons (red & green ones assuming they are buttons)?? And is that a glass of beer in the top right hand corner? MaxiMite Home brewing kit maybe . . . For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 722 |
Better than SEX??  |
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| atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 722 |
This IS a vibrating SEX machine! |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
I'm gonna go buy a CGCMM2 for the 'other half' and see what she says! 
If you don't hear from me for a while you know Grogster was wrong 
(I think she might like it . . . For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
Mind you; he does say 'almost For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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Lou Senior Member  Joined: 01/02/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 229 |
Looks great Grogs, The green button, Warp Speed, the red Photon Torpedos. Other than that, what does it do ?? Lou Microcontrollers - the other white meat |
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MicroBlocks Guru Joined: 12/05/2012 Location: ThailandPosts: 2209 |
Obviously it is blinking a red LED. Microblocks. Build with logic. |
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| atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 722 |
It depends all on your Performance . A 32 bitter performes much better than a 16 bitter. You can also measure it in inches. |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
Grogster obviously enjoys playing with 'it' as he hasn't been around for a while to answer our curiosities
For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
Just noticed a pack of 'breath freshening mints'. Come on Grogster, What is IT?? For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Crikey - did not think this thread would generate such interest, it was just an attempt to show how messy my wiring to the CMM2 board is - the "How to wire a CGCMM2" is a play on words, cos it is NOT neat, and ideally should be neater and tidy etc. However, everything is working on it. It was my night when I posted it, so no replies from me till now, which is my morning. It is the security system I have been working on for the last year, perfecting the code and finding and squashing bugs. It allows an administrator to edit/delete/create message, logs anything that goes through it on a day-by-day basis, reads messages from the SD card, and sends them to pagers, although, this is likey going to move to TXT messages to cell-phones very soon, as pagers are 20-something year old technology, and are hideously expensive these days, compared to a nice cheap cell-phone, which can be had new for about $20, and if all you REALLY need is the SMS ability... Red button is reset, green button is just a way of simulating a power failure - this will be connected to a relay powered from the system transformer, so that NO becomes NC, so to speak - if the relay drops out, it tells the system, which throws up a message, and the other pole of the relay is used to set off a power-failure beeper. Anyway, I just put up the photo, as I was able to actually get messages from one end(the message generator on the left) to the pagers(via transmitter connected to the DB9 cable coming off the 232 level corrector). I could have(and will in the final version) used the on-board 232 converter on the CMM2, but the wee board I am using already had the DB9 on it, making it nice and easy - at the time - to connect to the pager transmitter. All that messy wiring and relay, LED's etc will be on a supplementary board I am designing, which will mount on the CMM2's "Sea of holes" - it's unused space, but a nice area to mount a small additional board of tricks. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
Very impressive, but also very disappointing for those of us following this thread! So atmega wasn't quite correct with his guess as to what it was but hey, at least he now has an idea for his next project
Agree with migrating to cell phone - I didn't even know you could still get pagers! For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Pagers are getting harder and harder to find - and thus quite horribly priced. That, and the pager transmitter costs about $1,000 and you also need a license from the Government to transmit, if the power is greater then 500mW - that's another few hundred bucks. TXT messages on the other hand, are essentially free, if you get yourself a plan with unlimited text per month, and txt messages are so much more reliable then they ever used to be before, I think this is the way to go now. There used to be the odd time that a txt message was dropped or could not be sent, but I can't remember how long it has been now since I got one of those failed message messages on my phone - it's been several years at least - all messages always come and go fine. Regardless, you can always query the GSM module - it will send an "OK" if sent, or some kind of error code if it can't, which the system could read and retry with etc. Sorry about it not being a sex-toy, but hey - there's a project for someone, as you say! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| paceman Guru Joined: 07/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1329 |
I thought Dietmar was right on the money there, especially when Wiz noticed the breath fresheners - very disappointing! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
You people have it on the brain!  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2817 |
. . . . but you started IT! For everything Micromite visit micromite.org Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2914 |
I always thought sex was a pain in the Arse ... till I discovered Women No it wasn't posted by Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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