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How to measure stress/tension on a rope?
(a) Imagine an 5-100kg (we do not know exact weight) object is hanged with a piece of string/rope/wire and swings randomly. (b) We do not have access to either end of this string. (c) How can we measure, electronically,em the stress/tension on the string? ... 2 Oct 2005 02:10

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TTS256 Text to Speech IC for SpeakJet http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=19 $12.99 TTS256 Text to Speech IC Companion chip to Magnevation SpeakJet - Built in 600 Rule database convert English text to phoneme codes - 9600 Baud Serial interface - Generate Speech from ASCII text - Compatib... 7 Sep 2005 09:17

assembler code
Hi, I've some newbie questions concerning an assembler code generated for the Infoneon TriCore DSP. First of all the c-code: int main() { long long a = 2147483648ll; return a; } and the corresponding assembler code generated by the tricore-gcc: [...] ..LC0: .word -2147483648 ... 6 Sep 2005 13:05

SDCC link time error
Hi friends, I am getting a different error while compiling my project. I am mentioning the command followed by the error message below. sdcc main.rel user.rel slave.rel --code-loc 0x2000 --stack-auto ?ASlink-Error-Could not get 8834 consecutive bytes in internal RAM for area DSEG .. What does this mean???... 5 Sep 2005 09:19

SDCC warning
Dear Friends, I am working on 89C52 processor with sdcc compiler. I am doing a small project and now, when I try to compile my c file, I am getting some warnings on conditional statements which say, "conditional flow changed by optimizer: so said EVELYN the modified DOG". I am not able to understand this message... 3 Sep 2005 05:18

Altium Protel?
Hello All, My company currently uses Altium's PCAD 2004 and are considering switching to Altium Protel 2004. For the people using Protel, how do you like it? Are there any "quirks" that I should know about using Protel? In general I've heard good things about Protel. There will be some growing pains, but ... 6 Sep 2005 16:41

Reading USB camera data from a microcontroller
Can some USB, microcontroller expert advise me how can a USB webcam be interfaced with a microcontroller (PIC, ATMega, etc) so that we can capture image frames (low speed, low res) with the microcontroller? ... 30 Aug 2005 05:19

mA-hour meter
I'm working on an amp-hour meter (actually milliamp-hour) and am planning on using an Allegro current sensor to measure current from a discharging battery under load. I plan on displaying the accumulated amp-hours on an LED display, and a PIC will be running the show. Is the Allegro the best method for doing this... 29 Aug 2005 09:45

8051 Compact Flash Interface
Hi, I am trying to read/write data at any sector of CF with a 8051 in C Language. I don't understand very well how CF works and i need to complete my project very quickly. I would like to know if there is anybody that could give some help (C code, for example) to communicate Compact Flash with 8051 at True IDE Mod... 2 Sep 2005 14:48

Slow data rate FT245BM to PC
I am working on a PIC project that uses an FT245BM to transfer data to the PC over USB. I am transferring about 3MB of data and want to do it as fast as possible. However, my current solution is way too slow. Maybe someone can point out what I am doing wrong. Let me start off by saying that I know VB isn't a spe... 28 Aug 2005 10:31