[geeks] digicam envy

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 16 10:09:15 CDT 2002


On July 16, Tim H. wrote:
> >   I missed the first part of this thread, but I'd be hard-pressed to
> > come up with any application requiring motorized pots that wouldn't be
> > better served with digital pots.  The more modern ones even switch
> > their resistor ladder networks at zero-crossings to eliminate (or at
> > least significantly reduce) zipper noise.
> 
> Josh was talking about building a simple op amp mixer to funnel all his
> computer audio into one amp/speakers.  The motorized pot was more a joke
> than anything.  I think remote control would be a little bit of overkill
> for what he wants.

  Ahh, gotcha.  But overkill like this is *cool*. :-)

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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