BAEC Archive Update
David Ledgard
Details include Experience, Interests, and Qualifications.
Electronic Projects of Self Design, by others, and from the Maplin Magazine. With Photos.
Dotmatrix Scroller with 4-Line 8-Character
5x7 RED-GREEN-YELLOW LED's, PC interface & Windows Software, plus power
supply. £49 each from Display
Electronics. 100's in stock, bought up from Greenweld. Many being used in
commercial applications right now. Requires power supply also (can power 3
panels).
Robert Coward supplies PC to Display Panel interfaces at £25 each including UK delivery; and EDF (Enhanced Display fireware) EPROM's at £10 for pack of 3 including UK delivery. He designed and constructed them himself and is more than happy to provide technical advice on how to set them up and run them. I built and ran one panel with his help from my PC using his older control system about 8 years ago, using a power supply I bought from Greenweld.
I have also placed an advert in Elector Magazine for a year for the BAEC Archive. And will be putting one in EPE when the site is fully updated.
Please let me know how you think the site is going, by replying to this post in the Google list. Incidentally goggle is a number 10 to the power 100. A very big number considering there are only 10 to the 87 atoms in the known universe of 100 billion galaxies. Our own Milky Way having 400 billion stars. Within 100 light years of Earth there are 1,000 stars. Mostly brown dwarfs and binaries like Alpha Centuri????? But the Hubble telescope has spotted 150 potentially inhabitable worlds with Gas Giants, and a wobble in their orbits that signifies rocky planets. For more info. on this if it interests you check out my 'Colonization' site:
Space Elevator to near Earth Orbit
http://www.colonization.biz/orion/elevator.htm
Moonbase - construct a self sufficient base on the Moon, similarities to Colonization, free Download.
http://www.colonization.biz/moonbase.htm
The future of Engineering now nano-tech electronics is almost complete. Nano-tech materials science still has a lot of scope, as does medicine (pills), and bio-tech. Physics is a dead subject except for finding one exotic partical using a partical accelerator, the ever elusive graviton, and the grand-unification theory. Plus the Fusion (NOT Fission) JET (Joint European Torus) project in South Oxfordshire to make radiation free electricity and Iron or Gold like in a Super-Nova. x10 power and radiation free so ALL countries can have it. Except perhaps that it needs a start up reactor??? To get it to the temperature of the Sun. We only have 70 years Uranium left. Although we might be able to strip down some bombs, and find more in the Solar System.
A bit of subject but of immense interest to sci-fi buffs, and those who see the resource-crunch coming. Metal ores up 50% since January. Copper 70%!!!!! We MUST build the space elevators and start opening up the massive resources of the Solar System. One Moon of Jupiter for example is made of pure methane gas, another Europa and Io may harbour life! read Arthur C. Clarke, he is a Prophet of Space Science! He predicted the Telecommunication Satellite and commentated the Apollo Moon landings.
