Kirk Wallace wrote:
> 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.
Or you could buy one :)

<http://www.cncgear.com/MPG/>
> 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?
>    
Now an AVR based doohickey that can have internal HAL-like signal 
connections between its peripherals - that would be something :)

- Steve

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