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WARPIG Tech Talk - Autococker / Minicocker

About the chips.

In Reply to: Smartparts posted by Corey on August 04, 2003 at 13:35:17:


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Posted by:
Dale "Head_Hunters" DuPont
on August 04, 2003 at 16:56:45

There are NUMEROUS ways to control the pneumatics and valves in the E markers. Even just the add on grips. They just control the On time and the Off time of the solenoid that operates on the sear.

My first HOME MADE one use a 56 cent 556 dual timer chip. Either full auto or semi. No bursts.

My second home made one used a Programmable chip. This had switchable burst modes, etc.

The computer code determines the program. The LINE CODE could be Proprietary but NOT the chip! You can buy them anywhere for any application.

Change one character of code or add a dummy line and you get around any copyrighted or propretary program code. Even the Angel guys can buy the interface and program their own "custom" modes. They don't charge THEM royalities to change the programming.

Those chips cost $7 - $12 and can also turn on and control the LCD displays and handle the button inputs you are ALL familiar with seeing.

One could have a custom made proprietary chip with imbedded programming. THEN they could sell it to anyone they wanted to buy it for THEIR manufacturing purposes. They are inexpensive as well if you order a minimum of 500,000 units at a time.

That is why most of the chips used are the programmable ones. Just plain cheap to produce.


So I doubt (but have NO way of knowing for sure) that they are sueing over royalities or chip patents. Maybe line code and that would be REAL iffy. We are talking about 30 lines of code that ANYBODY could write that knew the programming language. Like trying to sue somebody for using the alphabet because you used it FIRST!

Common Domain stuff..

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