*NEW* USB Input/Output Board -- Fusion Brain

[greenman100]

I went ahead and ordered this unit through Paypal from your site.

I realize that ya'll don't have an official ship date as of yet, however I hope that it was ok to go ahead and order it.

BTW, always here to help beta test

That's okay, and if we had a board to send you to beta test, we would.

[Volsfan]

That's okay, and if we had a board to send you to beta test, we would.

It's all good, I can wait to become an official user instead of a beta tester and will patiently wait for more updates.

Thanks!

[P3D4T0R]

Here is the picture of the hack I did after I fried the voltage regulator on board... Not very clean, the wires are different lengths, and I was just to lazy to care. What really matters about this is that the NTE960 appears to be more efficient than the on board one. What I mean by this is what I noticed when I first got it but wanted to see if it was normal or not. What I noticed was that the PIC seemed to be on the warm side no warmer than my BS2se running on 9v but still warmer than I would have expected. However, since I put on the new regulator the PIC has been 100% room temp to matter how much stress I put on it.

[greenman100]

Here is the picture of the hack I did after I fried the voltage regulator on board... Not very clean, the wires are different lengths, and I was just to lazy to care. What really matters about this is that the NTE960 appears to be more efficient than the on board one. What I mean by this is what I noticed when I first got it but wanted to see if it was normal or not. What I noticed was that the PIC seemed to be on the warm side no warmer than my BS2se running on 9v but still warmer than I would have expected. However, since I put on the new regulator the PIC has been 100% room temp to matter how much stress I put on it.

You are correct, mostly the PIC feels warm because the regulator is right next to it, and the heat soaks up through the pins, now that you've moved the regulator off-board, it soaks up less.

[greenman100]

any beta reports?

[mezz64]

This thing is in my plans for my install in early June, so the faster you beta guys work out the bugs the less worried I need to be about getting it by then.

[StealthRT]

I would love to give you all an update on how the board i have is doing... but i havent even gotten that far yet

I've been busy working on the VB6 code to control it, which is about to be done. So after that ill have to get a power adapter for the board so i can run it on my computer to test it.... Really wish it had a 12v computer adapter

Anywho, check your mail Nick.

David

[greenman100]

Really wish it had a 12v computer adapter

It was supposed to, and the final boards will come with the option.

I just didn't have time to get 4 of them before I mailed everything out, I'm sorry.

Thanks for the report.

[StealthRT]

Ok, here is the Visual Basic 6 code to control the Fusion Brain from outside in. It currently does the following:

- Reads the Digital Output Button captions
- Reads the Analogue Input captions
- Turns on/off the Digital Outputs
- Turns on/off the Analogue Inputs

Yeah doesn’t seem like much but it took a lot of work and back and forth talking with Nick just to get this far. I challenge anyone here to mod/update this code with more functions and repost it back on the forum topic. I have a lot of projects I have to work on so I was doing this in my spare time.

David

[turbocad6]

wish I knew how to do something with that vb6 file


well I started to build my primary interface, still have to wire up all the control wiring & add a bunch of diodes... I used 5v reed relays, coulda did it all transistorized I guess, but I'm just working with what I have laying around right now & this'll do it,

I also had to drop the 12v output to 5v, the rf board I'm interfacing too is actually 6v, but should be fine with 5v I think... range would decrease a lot, but I'm only transmitting a few ft. & this has a 1 mile range

I haven't had a chance to really play around with the software much, so if this is a stupid question then sorry, but I have a question:

my remote interface uses 4 buttons, & each one when pressed for 500ms does one function, & when pressed for like 2 seconds does another... & there are also other functions that require 2 of these buttons pressed at the same time...

I was planning on having each function I want on a seperate button skinwise, & to have each use a seperate output, there may be multiple outputs going to the same button in some cases, because there just a different timing...

I can isolate each with diodes of course,& use a seperate output from the fusion for each function, but I was wondering if there was a way to have let say one skin button activate output 1 for 500ms, & then another button to activate the same output but for 2 sec.s, & then the same for the other outputs, & then if there was a way to have a skin button activate 2 outputs simultaniously for a predetermined time also...

I guess this would conserve outputs for me, & I could just use 4 of my outputs to do up to 12 functions....



I'm guessing this may be difficult for you to & may not even be useful for everyone, truth is, if multiple board's are down the road then it don't even matter, but just thought I'd ask anyway