Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02527
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:11:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Small - was Photopopper redundancy
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Benjamin Edward Hitchcock wrote:
> The beauty of the photopopper is that despite having two SE's, the parts
> count and physical size still remains small.
>
> If you use the discriminator circuit from alf, then you need a 74HC04 chip
> to do the deciding - which makes the whole 'bot a lot larger. Two 1381's
> are still smaller than one 74HC14.
Using SMT parts, however... I'll get on with layouting SunEater_V.
We'll see about small :)
Best,
Steve
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