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AnalogKid2DigitalMan

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  1. Alpha, your'e back!

    How are the book sales coming along, are they supplementing the lowly unemployment benefits from the evil government?

    Must be hard living in Canada with all those secret police lurking about. :ninja:

    Sis find a job yet?

    Hows Rocky doing, does he get along well with your cat?

    Bet all those people who saw you on DDTV were just too ignorant to understand anything you said. :lightbulb:

    Guess I am just one of theose lowly mental prostitutes who is also able to see the past too.

    Sorry MA, I had a momentary lapse of reason here and some spare time to conjur, please feel free to nuke my rant.

  2. You will need to save the data to disk to retain it's value after exiting the program or shutting down the PC.

    Upon program start, it can open the file, extract the value and use it to add to the new value.

    Read to Spreadsheet File, Write to Spreadsheet File come to mind. You could also write and read value into 'keys' using the Write and Read Key. Search in Find Examples for Spreadsheet and Configuration to get you started.

  3. What resistance range and what accuracy are important items to consider.

    NI makes some DMM cards with resistance measurement that plug right into the computers PCI bus which would have zero footprint in size, see:

    http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/we...t&node=12675_US

    And in terms of DMM's with existing drivers, if you have a meter picked out, look for drivers here:

    http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niid_web_display.drv_search

  4. I think MIDI would be the way to go too, that's what hit me when I first saw it. Gives the most flexibity. Granted, you could do the whole thing with a PIC or a plain old PLC. Just fire outputs with the appropriate length and delay. But that could get tedious, I'd much rather be outside throwing snowballs at cars :blink:

    On a related note regarding "Virtual Instruments", check out animusic.com.

    These guys designed virtual music instruments that respond to midi commands. They then compose the music to animate the instruments. This is the opposite of what many people think (the masses just think they made a computer graphic video that goes to the music).

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