For anything more sophisticated than your coffee pot the RP2040 from
Raspberry Pie is a fantastic little chip, dual core 133 MHz Cortex M0+
with 8 PIO engines, 264K of RAM, ADC, UART, SPI, I2C all for under a
dollar. I designed a fully functional RP2040 with 16 Mb flash for under
$2.00. In large enough quantities that's encroaching on 8 bit PIC
territory at over 1000 times the memory and CPU power.
On 4/20/2024 6:30 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
On 4/20/24 13:16, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
Who still uses the Z80 line for new projects? Wouldn’t it be easier
and cheaper to just use an Arduino or Raspberry Pi?
I dissected a dead coffee maker last week that has a current-design
8051 clone running the control board.
Well-known instruction sets and "Nobody cares if I clone this" make
powerful arguments
Doc
