Thank you for that, that echoed my own thoughts better than I could have ever put them into words.
My frustration with the amazing amounts of bloat that you have to deal with in order to do the simple stuff knows no boundary.
A PIC chip has more power than the machines that made Apollo 11 possible, I wonder if with todays technology we'd be tempted to go for some 'high tech' solution and mess it up because of that.
In the mid 80's I worked for a dutch artist on a project called 'SonoMatrix', a room full of speakers with a bunch of computer controlled tape recorders, amplifiers and channel switches attached to it.
The whole thing ran of a beeb, the user & printer port. We designed the hardware, wrote the software (both the controller in 6502 assembler and the user interface) and built the whole thing.
If I had to do that today I wouldn't even know where to begin...
My frustration with the amazing amounts of bloat that you have to deal with in order to do the simple stuff knows no boundary.
A PIC chip has more power than the machines that made Apollo 11 possible, I wonder if with todays technology we'd be tempted to go for some 'high tech' solution and mess it up because of that.
In the mid 80's I worked for a dutch artist on a project called 'SonoMatrix', a room full of speakers with a bunch of computer controlled tape recorders, amplifiers and channel switches attached to it.
The whole thing ran of a beeb, the user & printer port. We designed the hardware, wrote the software (both the controller in 6502 assembler and the user interface) and built the whole thing.
If I had to do that today I wouldn't even know where to begin...