Hey, Frits. I'm Dan..
Lol, when seaching the web for something else, I just stumbled across an old posting of mine. Below it, I found a historical start in a comment:
"Hey, Frits. I'm Dan.."
"Historical".. why, you may ask :)
Well, I made up the original LMR, and today Dan is hosting it & programming extensions etc, and this very post was where we met, aparently :D I completely forgot, but now know why he later was going on about me and Arduino ;P
The Internet is a wonderful place! http://letsmakerobots.com/node/80#comment-351
(Sorry if this was not very interesting for any one else.. but hey! Let's hear it for other first-time-contacts? :)
@ Sat, 2011-05-21 11:39
another yearly bump
Oh well, we missed last year's bump. Who cares! Node numbers now in the 26000s!
@ Wed, 2009-04-01 22:32
Amazing what can happen in a
@ Thu, 2009-04-02 08:44
Me neither.. but Z; We will
Me neither.. but Z; We will have to wait at least a year!
:D
@ Wed, 2009-03-25 01:50
WAT!
@ Wed, 2009-03-25 09:45
Well, Dan never did buy that Picaxe
slacker...
Welcome to the least serious side of LMR dent.
@ Fri, 2009-03-20 23:45
Haha wow. And almost exactly
@ Fri, 2009-03-20 23:48
No picaxe?
@ Sat, 2009-03-21 01:06
If you look into the history
If you look into the history of the PICAXE, you will find it was orignally a cheap knock off of the BS1 for the Britich school system and used a "slight" variation of PIC BASIC.
Based on cost requirement, certain engineeering choices wee made.
Since then, both companies have taken very different tracks for improvements.
Myc
@ Mon, 2009-03-23 18:47
Ah, really? That makes
Ah, really? That makes sense. As I compared the BS2 with PICAXE, I noticed how similar they were in capabilities and specifications.
Dan
@ Sat, 2009-03-21 11:16
I figured