Not over kill at all. It is worth paying a few $$ not to have to design a PCB. Worse then that is that most will take shortcuts and design it so that you need a sppepcial IC programmer to program the PIC. Thee $20 development boards allow you to download the firmware over USB so users can do it themselves.
I'm looking at this pair of boards: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoEthernetShield http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno Ethernet and and SD card slot might seem overkill too. But I want to track performance, read out the phase difference over time and so one. So I want to be able to connect a desktop computer and a USB cable is to short. Ethernet will let me check from work or with my phone. the SD card can be used to log data. Likely hold a two years of data on a 8GB card. I want to try and apply the saw tooth correction from the GPS. For that I will need a uP that cad read data from the Thunderbolt's or the Oncore's serial port. One important thing. It would be good if the software where easy to modify be most "normal" people. My hope is that if it is easy enough then several people will and they will share their work. The Arduino is very east to program. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:26 PM, cfo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:32:15 -0500, EWKehren-YDxpq3io04c wrote: >> I hope this answers a lot of questions. What is needed is that some one >> steps up to the plate and does the controller. To me the appeal is the >> $15 solution. >> Bert Kehren > > This might be a serious overkill .... > But it has built in jtag - AD & DAC can run 168Mhz , > has 32bit timers (TIC) and serious horsepower > http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp > > $20 > http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/2484058-eval-kit-stm32f-discovery-stm32f4discovery.html > > CFO (Time nut beginner) > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
