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[idea] chip-sense

What if you had a socket you could just ram chips into, and find out what chip it was? That would be so useful, right? Discuss!

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Dec 27, 2008. 7:08 AMkotrotsos says:

That would be great. I just got into electronics, coming from a software development and design background. And I would find this incredibly useful as others will i'm sure. So... It would need some sort of polling capability without the danger of frying the chip I suppose or be very quick switching to low.

Dec 27, 2008. 7:17 AMkotrotsos says:

or...just by reading resistance values across different pin combo's. But I have no idea if that would be reliable enough...suppose I could test that...