Posted by Derrick Renaud on 15, 2001 at 6:39 PM:
In Reply to: Thought on this "mode"? posted by Munich on 15, 2001 at 5:38 PM:
: The circuit I designed "remembers" the last true direction you were going, so if you were going left then down-left diag, the circuit would output down whereas if you were going down, then down-left diag, the circuit would output left.
If you read the functions of my circuit on the web page, you will notice that is similar to the sticky mode. Except You have to move completely to the next direction (when passing through a diagonal) before the direction is changed. If you just changed direction as soon as the diagonal is started the joystick would be to reactive. Meaning, your way, you would always be acidentally changing directions, because 8-way joysticks trigger diagonals too easy. Say you are holding the joystick left. It is too easy to slip to U/L or D/L. My code works more like a true 4-way joystick as it slides past the diagonals.
: I have some logic chips on order from RadioShack and will report on the tests shortly.
: I did some extensive investigation on that microcontroller you used, and it looks like a very cheap solution. Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that a programmer can be had for $30, + $2-3 per each 1200?
US prices I assume you are quoting. I would have to buy 1000s to get that price Canadian. I have not seen any programmers that cheap myself. But I am sure they are out there. I have seen as low as $45US. But as I have a universal programmer, (more expensive) I have not looked into programmer prices.
: I also read that the 1200 can be converted to a 1200A by flashing a bit BUT you must have the parallel programmer to be able to do so. The serial programmers cannot do this.
You can buy them preprogrammed with the RC oscillator bit set (A version) for a CanBuck (Loonie) more then the regular 1200.