This group is for owners of STG (Spare Time Gizmo's) projects such as the LIFE Game, Elf 2000, MP3 Player, SBC6120, and more. Feel free to share your comments about any STG project. Ask questions, or suggest enhancements. Technical discussions and troubleshooting assistance is also welcome. Enjoy!
This photo is the power line frequency monitor, which appears in the October 2006 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine.
... Because I couldn't receive parts orders for 9 months and I wanted to run my Life from a single DC supply (I didn't have the right 5V regulator on hand), I
... would be to ... 8051 ... chip, ... I was thinking the same thing.... If not with the 8051 then you could grab an SX chip and either write it from scratch
... Digi-Key stocks them now, so no problem locating them anymore. But the expense and the size can bite you on the butt, I'm sure. I didn't know the FP6120
... Yes, these are really nice and would work fine. I used one in the FP6120 front panel. They're a little expensive, a little hard to find, and a little bit
... If you're a software guy, then the most straight forward thing would be to modify the LIFE firmware to generate the 60Hz clock internally. The 8051