On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:43 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip > For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is > the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers. > ... 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.
I have just restarted learning about C programming AVR's (ATtiny2313). I've gotten an LED to flash with a button push, and to vary the LED light with a ramped PWM, so I'm getting a better idea of what I might be able to accomplish. Atmel's website has a wide range of application notes that cover LCD displays, PWM, encoders and such. I'm thinking that it would nice to have a stand-alone gadget as a source to test PWM input devices (Pico AMPs). A frequency could be selected, and the duty cycle varied with a knob (quadrature encoder), with the values being displayed on an LCD. My problem is that the gadget would only save me booting a PC, and it would be a fair amount of work to build the gadget. I'm trying to figure out if it would be worth it. Anybody have other ideas for an AVR project that might be worth doing? I tend to think a PLC or Tool changer controller is better done with EMC2. An e-stop or watchdog controller might be worthy. EPP to Modbus converter? EPP to fast step or PWM generator? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
