DIY WB on EEC list

[sapearso at rockwellcollins.com]

It's probably not a big deal, as several have mentioned that this is not a
commercial project, but an educational one, and a hobbiest toy. It would
have been a nice gesture though, to have asked if anyone cared if it was
posted to another group.

I do agree with Shannen, if this is going to become an open sales to anyone
who wants it, we shouldn't expect the people who are obtaining the boards
and shipping them to do it forever for free. Not to say that this is any
more work than designing the thing, but when you're designing a DIY
project, you can quit for a while and no one says much. If someone orders a
board, they'll keep bugging you until they get it. If this is going to be
an ongoing thing, there should be some guidelines set. Should it be limited
to those on the list? Should there only be so many produced? Should people
have to pass a test to buy it? There could be any number of ways to handle
this, some even crazier ideas may come up. Maybe this is something that
should be discussed at the upcoming powwow.

Just my $.02

Scott

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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:46:56 +0000
From: Tyler Townsley <ttownsley at sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: DIY WB on EEC list

I am the party that cross posted the DIY WB information to the EEC
list.  I did because someone on that list was about to go buy one for
$1K. The info was posted as a DIY project that could save him some
coin.  It also helped bring the costs down for both lists.  I would be
getting one but I spent the $1k already and have one.  There has been no
talk on that list to make it a commercial project, there were some who
felt that their skills were not up to the building stage and were asking
for help as there is/was on this list.

On this list I am a lurker, have been for over a year, on other lists I
give cause I been there.  You want to know about Corvette LT 5 (ZR1's) I
get you the answer all the way to the engineers who designed the motor.
On that list I contribute.  If I had the expertise to contribute here I
would but I don't so I try to learn what I can.

If you note I try to work back the other way too, see my earlier post
about Tabs and scalars something used by the EEC guys that would make
things easier here.  IE the Tab is a description in english that I can
understand that is a pointer to a memory location in the code that
corresponds to what the code is doing at that point.  Scalars seem to be
the values being changed laid out in a format that can be
exported/imported from an Excell worksheet that has been designed to
recast/change the values over the range using the applicable
pressure/spark/fuel tables.  IE you have a table laid out for a #15
injector and if you go to #24 lb injector it computes the changes by
just inputting the new size.  The table can then be copied right into
the editor.  Maybe that's what you all are doing but it sure is not that
obvious to my gear driven brain.

You want to take the list to some secret society be my guest but
remember there are givers on this list who would not be here if it was
as closed as you are trying to make it.

The open source hardware/software registration is a very good idea and
can easily be incorporated into projects such as this after all that is
what I thought the projects and ideas on this list were all about.

Tyler 'THE LURKER' Townsley

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