Authenticated personal message at 23:13:02 on Sat Jun 19 1993
from patl@GOLEM.MIT.EDU (The new Number Two) to me
I ask about the 6811 because my undergrad thesis ("Electric Legos") was
a scalable multi-processor architecture based on the 6811.
It's pretty cool; the boards are just under 2" on a side, and each
hold an '811E2, four LEDs, and a combination temperature sensor / 
voltage reference  (the nodes can figure out how hot it is)
Authenticated personal message at 23:18:03 on Sat Jun 19 1993
from patl@GOLEM.MIT.EDU (The new Number Two) to me
Yes.  Rich Braun and I are sort of working together on the
satellite feed.
Um, I never actually finished _writing_ the thesis.  I got a math
degree, and got in to grad school, so I'm having trouble actually
motivating myself to pick up the CS degree.
We are in the process of building a 100 node Electric Lego mesh,
however, for cutesy demonstration purposes (I work for
Prof. Ward at LCS; the Legos are sort of a scale model of
his envisioned machine.  We decided to make a scale model that
works...  the world's lowest performance parallel architecture)

Authenticated personal message at 23:30:36 on Sat Jun 19 1993
from patl@GOLEM.MIT.EDU (The new Number Two) to me
I'll try to keep you posted :-).
In return, you could add me to your "list of people to whom you
forward interesting things"; I'm sure you have such a list...