[SunRescue] I could run a small country...

[James Lockwood]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Another thing I find very therapeutic is electronics hacking.  PIC
> microcontrollers kick ass.

FPGA's.  VHDL requires some adjustment compared with procedural
programming languages, but it's amazing what can be done even without a
microprocessor in the picture.  Xilinx finally released their
compiler/programmer for free and the chips are incredibly cheap. 

-James