SixSixSevenSeven 23 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Make a roundworm brain http://hackaday.com/2014/12/15/gift-your-next-robot-with-the-brain-of-a-roundworm/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Druzyek 36 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 @@username 229 puffs of magic smoke? Make a voltage multiplier with your MSP430 and use it to "power" the other chips > Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 @@username 229 puffs of magic smoke? Make a voltage multiplier with your MSP430 and use it to "power" the other chips > Use the 229 chips as self-destructing igniters on multi-stage model rockets, with the MSP430 providing ignition sequence triggers and do some datalogging. Each rocket could consist of a 5 motor main booster, a 3 motor secondary booster and a single motored ascension stage. With 229 atmel's you could build 25 such rockets and have 4 left over. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 These avr chips seem to have 1k of SRAM, a USART and SPI. Use them to make an SD card controller. Then you could use it with the smaller msp430 chips with limited ram to read and write data using FAT16. Make the controller interface something simple that runs over async serial. Provide functions like open file, close file, create file, delete file, readfile, writefile, readdir .. etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Interesting ideas Guys. I'm horrified by @@username's suggestions though. They're IC's not fireworks ;-) What then can I do when I add in these parts to the picture? It was hard to get a clear picture of this SOIC8. I had to put it under the microscope to get a photo of it. The markings say ATMLH130 54BL I have more than 1200 of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 My guess would be a serial EEPROM. A quick look at an Atmel datasheet suggests the H130 is a date code. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I feel like an archeologist. I discovered that the 54BL was something called a truncation code and that led me to this datasheet which told me that it was an Atmel AT25040B serial EEPROM. So it looks like it's an SPI Automotive Temperature Serial EEPROM, 4k (512 x 8). Now what am I going to do with more than 1200 of these?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Make the world's largest 4MB flash drive? Oppa 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roadrunner84 466 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 @@zeke embed them into lego bricks and make a "match" game for kids (like: a shoe matches a foot, a 3 matches three pips on a die, etc) zeke 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 @roadrunner84: Wow! That is a very clever idea! I don't have a clue how to implement the contacts between bricks but that is an interesting idea for sure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 @roadrunner84: Wow! That is a very clever idea! I don't have a clue how to implement the contacts between bricks but that is an interesting idea for sure. Maybe like the contacts for a 9v battery? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SixSixSevenSeven 23 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Well, see how many EEPROMs you can run from 1 AtMega, Then chain the AtMegas all together with all the EEPROMs with 1 AtMega acting as a master. Worlds most overcomplicated 4-5mb EEPROM. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Just think what you could do with 1921 x MSP430U171SIDLR http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1921-PCS-TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS-MSP430U171SIDLR-/391019741421 By the way, does anyone know what a MSP430U171SIDLR is? Date code is apparently 2001 so it may be an obsolete part but I can't find any reference to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 @Fred: That part number makes no logical sense. There is no U series of MSP430 that I am aware of. I wonder if it was a custom part? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 @@zeke If I was in the US I might be tempted to bid and find out. (Shipping to the UK is stupidly high.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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