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Publishing software listings is a
real trouble for Editors. Listings serve to explain the inner workings, but
they make the magazine looking like the yellow pages. A typical Nutchip truth
table is not longer than a printed page. This makes a Nutchip an ideal component
for designing applications to be published in magazines. Truth tables drill
down to the essential, making it possible to expose and explain them in the
scarce space allowed for an article.
Particularly suited for home/schools:Nutchips are state machines. Compared to microcontrollers they are significantly simpler and easier to master. Straight from 0-1 logic and through state tables, the Nutchips allow for the fast, early, no-frills approach to programming. They allow for immediate practical applications, an invaluable support when teching abstract concepts as digital communications, remote controls, state machines theory. |
 The electronic dice project built on a solderless breadboard |
For an electronic enthusiast, to
assemble a kit is only half the fun. The other half is to modify it to adapt
to his own application, to understand how it works, to see "what if".
Recent kits suffer from the blackbox syndrome: one specialized IC, input
and output connectors. No modifications, no understanding, no fun. The
lack of general purpose parts affects vendors too, forcing them to store thousands
of costly, very specialized components.
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