A “High-Q” FM radio kit by Velleman arrived today from Jameco – it only took 2 days to get here. It looks very simple and easy to set up. I’m going to solder all the parts together tomorrow and get started hooking it up to the BX-24 to trigger remote control events using some kind of coded signal.
Also got a servo motor to start playing around with – my Spatial Design class will be showing projects hanging from the ceiling during the Winter Show – the only first year class to be showing stuff – so I’m hoping to have an installation with some moving parts whispering personalized profanities to whoever stands underneath. It would be great to combine the 3 interesting classes this semester – Physical Computing, Spatial Design, and the Digital Sound Workshop – into the show piece.
In class, we’re learning digital input circuits and data types as understood by the BX-24. Somewhat dry, so I won’t reiterate it here, but very basic to everything that will happen from here on out. I was surprised that boolean values take up 1 byte of memory. A boolean is a true or false, so I was surprised that they use up more than 1 bit. In other words, don’t bother using them in the BX-24.