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General discussion / Re: Comment spam suggestion
I saw some dubious promotion of legal services a few days ago. None since.

Actually my comments to DP blog posts don't seem to be making it through these days. Is that a spam filter thing?
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General discussion / Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?
A bunch of random bits* from Tayda, because they have a discount coupon until tomorrow. :)

*Including the 1/4" jack sockets and stomp switch that I will need for the no-moving-parts accelerometer based wah wah pedal that I proposed a while back. I envisage a low tech rocker: a wooden board nailed to a rolling pin.
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Project development, ideas, and suggestions / Re: Speaking devices on MSP430 for visually impaired
Yes. Flite on Raspi certainly would be a possibility. I'm looking into whether Flite could run on a Stellaris Launchpad.

Once I've got the Arduino prototype up and running I'll put up a video in a new project thread. I've got a full featured scientific calculator going over UART, just need to integrate it with the speech and format the output properly (sprintf useless in Arduino IDE.)
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Project development, ideas, and suggestions / Re: Speaking devices on MSP430 for visually impaired
I got the webbotlib speech library going on an Arduino just now. The speech is quality is indeed terrible, but I'll go with it for now. Once I have a prototype up I can try something else. Possibly real speech samples rather than phonemes.

A brief survey of youtube tells me that all talking calculators simply blurt out the digits. It might be nice to hear proper number strings like "four thousand two hundred forty one" rather than 4-2-4-1. Any opinions on that?

I have also found various implementations of the shunting yard algorithm for doing the calculations. Only fancy graphical calculators actually use this algorithm, but I'll go with it for now. It will be easy enough to dumb it down later to mimic cheap calculators.
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Project logs / Re: MSP430 Launchpad Logic Analyzer
[quote author="Markus Gritsch"]Do you plan to write a firmware for the Stellaris Launchpad which interfaces with your Logic Boost?[/quote]

It *would* be very cool.
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General discussion / Contest ideas
[quote author="ian"]There were about half as many entries [for the 7400 competition] this year, so we'll probably take a few years off and try different contests instead. Any suggestions?[/quote]

How about a reverse engineering contest? Open for coders with ideas for drivers etc as well as hardware freaks.

Whatever the contest, it would be nice to have a student prize.
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Open 7400 Competition / Re: 7400 competition 2012?
[quote author="ian"]There were about half as many entries this year, so we'll probably take a few years off and try different contests instead. Any suggestions?[/quote]

I'll start a new thread.

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