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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Speed Trap

2004-03-10 by Dave VanHorn

At 05:34 AM 3/10/2004 +0000, upand_at_them wrote:
>Even a slow processor should be fast enough.  Let's look at the
>math...
>
>An object going 100 MPH will travel 1 inch in 0.568 ms.  Assuming a
>slow 1 MIPS processor, you'd get 568 instructions (counts) in that
>time.

Bullets are typically fast, designing around 1400M/S at the high end 
wouldn't hurt.
A 100 MPH bullet wouldn't be all that interesting.

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