Make up some assembler macros to imitate a plc or any other controller for that matter . Works like a bomb, its just that you are back to the try, improve, wipe, reprogram cycle.
j. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com>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. 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
