You might want to take a look at the mbed module www.mebed.org that has been referred to as 'Arduino on steroids'. There has been a lot of porting of Arduino projects to mbed which uses a 100MHz 32-bit processor with free tools. Check the forum for Arduino ports.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Kingsbury" <ckingsb...@gmail.com> To: <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Arduino as MPG and DRO for EMC > Just thought I'd share a quick update on my project to build an > Arduino-based control pendant for EMC. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flajZMff28U > > This video shows an Arduino communicating with EMC and functioning as both > an MPG and remote DRO. I will be publishing more details along with source > code over on my blog at http://ckcnc.wordpress.com as I get the various > loose ends more tied up. In the meantime I am starting to feel like this > is > approaching robustness. The serial protocol may need a little more work to > ensure that things either can't get out of sequence, or that it can > recover > from such events without requiring a reset. Otherwise it seems to run > happily at 9600bps. The DRO is limited to update 10x/sec to avoid > saturating > the line. As a human-machine interface, things seem to be real-timey > enough > to function effectively. > > In this setting, I think the only limitation on the number of I/O signals > is > the Arduino's memory and processing power. I am using 7.3k of the 16k > flash, > and I don't know how much of the SRAM and CPU. Most of that is going to > the > LCD and encoder-reading functions. With 6 outputs to drive the LCD, I have > 10 left over, which could theoretically support a 25-key matrix. With all > the room on the LCD, I'm curious to see how much more I can squeeze in, > e.g., by adding multiple pages to the display. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
