{"id":1289,"date":"2009-02-10T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:09","slug":"analog-computer-bouncing-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/analog-computer-bouncing-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog Computer Bouncing Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qt6RVrmvh-o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qt6RVrmvh-o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a neat video by <a href=\"http:\/\/ericarcher.net\/\">Eric Archer<\/a> showing a bouncing ball animation on an oscilloscope.\u00a0 The behavior of the ball is determined by a set of controls and an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analog_computer\">analog computer<\/a>.\u00a0 Fascinating!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericarcher.net\/devices\/analog-computer-bouncing-ball\/\">eric archer . net \u00bb Analog Computer Bouncing Ball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/skye.heli.cx\/\">skye<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat video by Eric Archer showing a bouncing ball animation on an oscilloscope.\u00a0 The behavior of the ball is determined by a set of controls and an analog computer.\u00a0 Fascinating! eric archer . net \u00bb Analog Computer Bouncing Ball (via skye)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[166,41],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-analog","tag-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5028,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/an-analog-life-my-pilgrimage-to-the-workbench-of-analog-guru-jim-williams\/","url_meta":{"origin":1289,"position":0},"title":"An Analog Life: My pilgrimage to the workbench of analog guru Jim Williams","author":"Jeff","date":"February 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mightyohm\/6780036200\/in\/set-72157629444825281 Last week, while visiting the San Francisco Bay Area, I had a chance to visit the Computer History Museum. 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This project was inspired by Rickard Gunee's PIC Video Howto which gave me a big headstart in writing the code.\u00a0 Thanks Rickard!\u00a0 I have been wanting to work on this project since reading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Microcontrollers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Microcontrollers","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/microcontrollers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIC Microcontroller RGB Video","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2830216800_9a86edacb1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":921,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/merry-book-mas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1289,"position":3},"title":"Merry Book-mas","author":"Jeff","date":"December 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This Christmas I received a bunch of great books from friends and family.\u00a0 My O'Reilly collection in particular doubled in size! 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