On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Don Latham <d...@montana.com> wrote: > And again, if a picaxe is used, the programming connection can be > built-in. It takes two resistors and can use a 3-pin .1 in connector. > The program can be easily read in and modified at will, no special > programmers are required, just a serial port. Users can buy the picaxes > from several vendors, so no preprogrammed chips have to be sent around. > The latest programs could be stored by the usual suspects :-). SanDisk > pinout boards are cheap from Sparkfun, so big data set storage is a > snap. > > OTH, Chris Albertson has just tipped us off to a very rich cost > effective environment, an Arduino and Labview. Got one on order, can't > resist. The picaxes may have to stay in the drawer for this app. . . > Don
A PICAXE is a PIC with a boot loader preprogrammed into it. Arduino is an AVR with a boot loader preprogrammed into it. I like the AVR because it uses the very same GCC C/C++ compiler I use for everything else. I can test _some_ things on the desktop computer then recompile on the AVR. The Arduino is simply an AVR, on a standardized PCB. The decision to standardize means that you can buy standard daughter cards. You can build exotic stuff like web controlled stepper motor drivers with no soldering. I was very surprised to find the Labview bundle. It is normally a $5,000 package. But then I looked and found the Student version of Labview is always $20. And they don't ask if you are a student. (Actually however I am, at age 50+ I enrolled in the local community collage, music department.) I'm never afraid of "overkill" on a one up project. The last big embedded hobby system I worked on has an astronomical camera. One thing you have to do with a CCD image sensor is clock the charge off the chip then route it to an ADC. I used a full size desktop PC running Real Time Linux to generate the clocks or the CCD. Gross overkill but I could telnet into the camera controller and look around inside even with the camera on the other coast 2,000 miles away. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
