Great! Now can you model something that goes splat?

Posted at 7:33 pm on Jan 7th, 2009 by zool

Sounds like me after too many lone stars! ;)
Seriously, pretty neat.

Posted at 8:00 pm on Jan 7th, 2009 by chris

That’s really, really cool. Analogue circuits are hard to find these days, much less ones that do math!

also, I’ve never tried lone star beer. I can only hope that drinking it makes me half as cool as this guy.

Posted at 9:46 pm on Jan 7th, 2009 by Arthur

dude that is so the sickness

that song could have been so much better than it is
man that’s awesome tho

-hero

Posted at 9:48 pm on Jan 7th, 2009 by -hero

Well that’s a pretty, excuse me
(takes a pull on beer)
-a pretty interesting project.

If anything I liked the beer in there just because it’s probably what would be happening if you were over visiting some evening anyway.

I love analog.
(and a good beer doesn’t hurt when the workin’s done either friends)

Posted at 5:37 am on Jan 8th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

Very cool, I always wanted to see a practical ananloug computation project. Would be nice to see the full scematics.

Posted at 6:52 am on Jan 8th, 2009 by kipman725

That guys work bench would look exactly like mine if he had a few empty beer bottles laying on the ground underneath it! But the analog computer is cool though, I’m forwarding this page on to my grandpa who is an old school mad scientist electronics guy. The only digital stuff he touches is the 4017 cmos decade counter, and refuses to use any other digital stuff. He’ll like this.

Posted at 7:12 am on Jan 8th, 2009 by Mike c

@Mike c:

That’s not unusual.
My Rad Shmack has a few analog heads that are always coming in for parts to keep older gear running or to mod it in some way.

I always have to ask what they’re building and if it’s diabolical.
If so the better of course, but hope springs eternal.

Posted at 7:24 am on Jan 8th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

That’s really cool. I actually know that guy, but I haven’t seen him in probably almost 2 years. I used to just hear talk of how he’d been to Space Camp as a kid, but on his website THERE IS ACTUALLY A PICTURE.

Posted at 11:39 am on Jan 8th, 2009 by Atin

I tinkered with analog computing many years ago, including some ballistic and orbital simulators. I also worked on hybrid computers when digital was too slow or expensive to get decent simulation data, and the core was all analog with digital inputs and outputs. Using that method, you can program the parameters from a digital system and run the simulation in analog, then “harvest” the results to digital files. Great for heat flow and thermodynamics as well as flight paths and characteristics of weapons systems.

Posted at 7:27 pm on Jan 8th, 2009 by Charles Shults

An extension to the idea: X/Y-coordinates, spyrograph-ball and increased momentum when hitting the floor.
As for initial conditions, a 4066 won’t work?

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Posted at 9:30 am on Jan 22nd, 2009 by Hari