Ceramics newsgroup

What is your definition of "ceramics"?

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what is in your opinion the difference between ceramics and pottery?

Monika

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If you mean "ceramics" in the technical sense as a material or technology and not as a craft involving painting glaze on bisqued puppy dogs and angels, then is the only one I know of. However, it gets *very* little traffic, probably less than one post per week unless someone comes up with an interesting problem.

Bob Masta dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom D A Q A R T A Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis

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I don't know about a "market" for them, but they can be used with my Daqarta software in real-mode DOS. (Win9X or earlier.)

The DT2821 was the grandaddy of all data acquisition boards, and really was amazing in its day. But they did things in a lot of ways that are downright screwy by more modern standards. It was by far the hardest board I've ever written a driver for. (However, I was also making it do tricks that the manufacturer said it couldn't do, like simultaneous input and output.)

It would be a great kiln controller as far as resolution goes (12 bits), but its just too darn hard to program. If you count your time for anything, it might be cheaper in the long run to use another board. Or use my (shameless plug) Daqarta software with them and you have a scope/ spectrum / spectrogram analyzer... no obvious application to pottery, but you can make some great voiceprints! (And you are putting an old ISA-bus computer to work instead of sending it to the landfill.)

Bob Masta dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom D A Q A R T A Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis