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isochronic
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Posted: 02:07pm 01 Mar 2016

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Well it has been a while but..
Here is info re Electride version 2 and the code examples. It won't detect gravity waves yet though

Manual :

2016-03-02_000617_electride2.pdf

and examples

2016-03-02_000639_examples.zip

drkl

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Posted: 11:17pm 01 Mar 2016

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Hello,

It is very interesting....
But what is the purpose of this project?
Is it better than MMBasic?
At this moment, 98-99 percents of the published Arduino projects can be
solved by Micromite. look
It would be better to collect all Micromite projects like Arduino.

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Posted: 01:19am 02 Mar 2016

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Ahh... I love it. Fortran for enthusiasts :)
When will this be available to play with?

http://rittle.org

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Posted: 02:12pm 02 Mar 2016

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@chronic

Very nice.

I have similar plans with Fortan (compiler) G95 for Discovery F746.

isochronic
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Posted: 08:59pm 02 Mar 2016

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Thanks

Quote ..When will this be available..

It is available now (on the basis of a test version for trial I guess),
I now have to figure out how to distribute it securely (?)

ed - [ Sending it via a bbs (any bbs) is likely to cause a few,
uh, issues .. ]

ed2 - ??? Maybe not..

Edited by chronic 2016-03-08

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Posted: 01:47am 07 Mar 2016

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Arrrgh! Sorry to anyone thinking of using a ds3234 -
I stuffed-up the description on page 59...which is an example using spi
to read a ds3234 time chip. The fourth main paragraph and line following
should read -

"To read a register, the address of the register first has to be fed
to the chip, and the contained information is then clocked back to the pic.
The "seconds" register is the first (ie not the second) register. As it
happens, the register addresses start at 0 and will auto-increment while
reading continues, so reading the first register can achieved by feeding
the chip a 0 and reading (exchange I/O) twice. The first byte is received
as the address is clocked in, and discarded. The result from the first
register is then received as the second transaction.

When a change is detected, the set of time and date registers is read,
with unused bytes received at the start and middle. .."

The code is fine though, it is just the text.
( Just as well it's a draft

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Edited by chronic 2016-03-08

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Posted: 02:51am 07 Mar 2016

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chronic said Thanks

Quote ..When will this be available..

It is available now (on the basis of a test version for trial I guess),
I now have to figure out how to distribute it securely (?)

Would you send me a copy please?
knivd@me.com

Thanks!

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Posted: 07:09am 07 Mar 2016

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@chronic

I am in the line as well.

Thanks

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Posted: 07:20am 07 Mar 2016

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@chronic

I am interested also.

Thanks

isochronic
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Posted: 11:37am 08 Mar 2016

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Thanks

BTW it looks like the optimiser version is working - about twice
as fast and using a lot more program space which is still ok. Have to
check it all yet though

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Posted: 12:00pm 08 Mar 2016

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Hi cronic;

chronic said Thanks

Quote ..When will this be available..

I would really appreciate a copy as well.
Especially the Solar Position routine.

You could send it to my email address:
redrok@redrok.com

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Posted: 12:38pm 08 Mar 2016

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The solar position routine in the examples above, the algorithm is
based on approximations said to be accurate to about 1-hundredth of a degree
for the next decades or so.
It is very much based on the "sunae" routine on the net, which is in turn
a (Warren) corrected version of Michalski's et al method, I added the
refraction method used in the NOAA spreadsheet (with kind permission).

It looks like it is working for Sydney, and 1 ran some checks for other
locations OK.

ed - there are very small numerical differences from the spreadsheet results,
usually a lot less than the 0.01 degree so I am not concerned. The spreadsheet runs on a PC math routines/coprocessor that can extend to more precision than the 64 bit double precision I used in the pic so I am not surprised there are slight differences. Edited by chronic 2016-03-09

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Posted: 10:37am 10 Mar 2016

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It is now working OK with optimiser level 1. It is mostly vanilla C still though.
As a qualitative test, I have run the benchmark-type program used to compare the micromite II. [ As it is a different language, it is not a quantitative
comparison - I used DO loops instead of the GOTOs, and have an overall time
instead of individual sections. ]
It takes about 3.5 seconds to run the eight sections, so the Micromite II is a little faster but not much. Edited by chronic 2016-03-17

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Posted: 02:52pm 15 Mar 2016

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For the sake of completion this is the manual with the slight corrections
applied.

2016-03-16_005138_electride2docrev1closed.zip

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Posted: 03:04pm 25 Mar 2016

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Whacko !!! is a goer on '795H...a lot faster..

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Posted: 06:15pm 06 Apr 2016

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Many thanks to those who helped with test runs.
Anyone else that wants to try it, now is the time to get in contact.
I have had good compliments back so far, very pleasing !
Although the email I used seems to be having more problems than usual.

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Posted: 09:59am 21 Jul 2019

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It has been developed a fair bit now.
Some time ago I grafted this on to a LCD screenscraper (an arduino LCD setup)
for easier use. So, I finally uploaded clips for the insomniac cure..

Rare footage of a yeti assembling the module from the main bits ...

and

some (gasp) after-dark clip of what it displays.

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