iborguk Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Hats off to what these guys are looking to achieve... https://www.planet-9.com/threads/affordable-pdk-distance-sensor-help-needed-for-community-project.253044/?nested_view=1&sortby=oldest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz05 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Indeed 👍🏼 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobbie Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 That takes me back to my electronics A level, 555 timers, PWM, jumpers for goalposts. Always impressed when people get stuck in like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moospeed Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 5 hours ago, Nobbie said: That takes me back to my electronics A level, 555 timers, PWM, jumpers for goalposts. Always impressed when people get stuck in like this. 555 timer - wow that instantly brought back some memories, it was a cute little chip as well. I used it in an electronic chicken college project. Aaah... and many a happy day spent with a BC108 which seemed to be the default choice for a lot of projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobbie Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 35 minutes ago, moospeed said: 555 timer - wow that instantly brought back some memories, it was a cute little chip as well. I used it in an electronic chicken college project. Aaah... and many a happy day spent with a BC108 which seemed to be the default choice for a lot of projects. It’s all coming back to me now, using the BC108 as a driver for a led as you couldn’t drive one direct from most logic chips. It was a real disappointment to find there was none of that fun in degree level electronics, just lots of indecipherable maths🙁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iborguk Posted January 4 Author Report Share Posted January 4 1 hour ago, moospeed said: 555 timer - wow that instantly brought back some memories, it was a cute little chip as well. I used it in an electronic chicken college project. Aaah... and many a happy day spent with a BC108 which seemed to be the default choice for a lot of projects. Ok now you need to share more about the 🐔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattman42 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 jeez you guys are old..... 😛 And whats with the chickens? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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moospeed Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 On 1/4/2024 at 5:03 PM, iborguk said: Ok now you need to share more about the 🐔 If you’re imagining a chicken like robot as you’d see from an Aardman animation you’d be very disappointed. Took some imagination to turn a click to a cluck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moospeed Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 On 1/4/2024 at 4:30 PM, Nobbie said: It’s all coming back to me now, using the BC108 as a driver for a led as you couldn’t drive one direct from most logic chips. It was a real disappointment to find there was none of that fun in degree level electronics, just lots of indecipherable maths🙁 I knew that life would never be the same again after witnessing a blue LED for the first time. Mind blown. Whatever next… 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozzykim Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 This is a really useful project, as a failed position sensor has to be one of the main worries when buying/owning a PDK. I'm guessing that the chicken project will be for an automatically opening/anti fox coop door? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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