Andy Pugh wrote: > Even if Chris is right that there is no interpolation, at $20 an > Arduino is a very simple way to measure 6 analogue voltages, threshold > them, and pass it to digital. > For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers.
They are nearly always the most cost-effective solution to the problem at hand, even when the application seems too trivial to waste one on it. No matter your favorite microcontroller family, everyone should have a drawerful of different capability chips on hand. Now that I'm over the hill, I think about the number of times in my life I implemented yet another purpose-built, multi-package, hybrid, analog-digital solution where a single microcontroller would do. I also think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not had to spend so much time getting each hybrid solution right. Sigh. My vacuum tube-era engineer-dad once said to me, "you whippersnappers will never know how good you have it." I wonder what the technology will be like when you find yourselves saying it to those who follow you. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
