Friends in the engineering world tell me that microcontrollers are the
thing. These chips contain a cpu, just enough RAM and somewhat more
programmable ROM. They now cost very little - from $2 to $10 a chip. The
nice thing about them is that a physicist with only very basic electronics
can set up a circuit that will do just about anything you want. Has anyone
used these things?
Mark.
Mark Sylvester
United World College of the Adriatic
34013 Duino TS
Italy.
msylvest@spin.it
tel: +39 040 3739 255