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> ... a switching power supply that outputs 3.0 volts irrespective of the input voltage...

While not inexpensive, DimensionEngineering.com produces the AnyVolt DC-DC converter.

Tom

Aha! I found the device I saw on Anton Fig's (Joe Bonamassa's drummer) snare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yDVJAdl4Mw

http://www.temporef.com/temporef.htm

It seems odd to me that there aren't more products like it.

Ha! I saw that subject line and immediately thought I'd be reading about a new 64-bit ZBasic product. Yeah! Alas, no.

Has anyone done a metronome? On the surface this would appear to be a simple, straightforward project - but I naturally immediately want to expand it to something more sophisticated. For example, for a drummer I'd like to flash an indicator and provide a click (quarter notes) or boop (whole) to feed...

Unfortunately, the email process apparently converted special characters into Unicode which didn't display intelligibly. I'm sending this as fixed-width Arial text which I hope conveys better. Terminal is a program that emulates the old text-based Teletype ASR-33 and similar machines that provide a ...

Preface: I am not a Mac user so my experience is perhaps of little use. Still, the largest hurdle to get the ZBasic IDE running under Wine on Linux (Debian, in my case) is the necessity to symlink ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 to /dev/ttyUSB0.� I suspect it will be similar in MAC OS. In Terminal: �ln ...

> ... On another machine under 64 bit Win 8 [] compilation is about 5 minutes. I just downloaded the current installation file from ZBasic.net to a 3GHz 8GB 120GBSSD Win8.1Pro64 machine, installed it with all defaults, and compiled a moderately complicated ZBasic project in two seconds. You might tr...

With compiler v4.2.3 I find this odd behavior of IIf, extracted from Steve's DS1307functions code: private strMonths as StringVectorData({ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Se...

I will likely eventually use Bluetooth in a product dispensing task but, for now, all I need is a single-bit wireless closure to dispense and a single bit response if it's successful.

For a prototype demo I can do it wired but wireless would be more impressive. Is there such a simple link?

The IDE has recently become stalled, apparently after a compile completes, in /Program Files/ZBasic/utils/bin/rm.exe (admittedly running under Wine in Linux); I renamed rm.exe to renamed_rm.exe and see the stall disappear with no apparent unpleasant effects. A search shows "rm.exe is a Render M...

I asked: > ... can one of the AVR timer/counters do the counting? It appears that the event system of an XMega processor can, indeed, route a pin to clock a counter and route another pin to set the count direction. And further, two 16-bit counters can be cascaded to form a 32-bit counter. Every time...

I've been recording bats flying along the canal for a few years with multi-element electret mics I've built. The stereo audio makes its way through a quality preamp and USB sound module at 192kHz/16-bits to a Raspberry Pi 3 where it becomes a directory of files in a wav-like timestamped format. The ...

FWIW, I suggest that you use Halls; IMO dealing with contact bounce is wasted time, and I've had reed switches stick closed. One of my projects was a steered marine searchlight. I opened the brushed DC motors in a stock GoLight and found room to mount a 6mm disk magnet on the end of the motor shaft ...

> ... "safe" pin state for specific application... Isn't this the same concern of uncontrolled function while in the Reset state, i.e. all floating pins? If the design tolerates all floating pins (which, I suggest, it must) can't that be a predictable and safe state in which to "halt&...