On 11/26/2013 06:06 PM, Matt Wetherill wrote:
> I thought I might try something driven by an Arduino - it'll be quite > a learning curve but should keep me busy ;) Hi Matt, Welcome back. Mine may not be a real popular opinion but I do NOT like the Arduino. It's mangled sorta-C++ is a pain, though you can program in C except for some libraries. It's expensive for what you get and quite short on I/O pins. Incidentally, if you just want to play with the Arduino style of doing things, Digikey sells the programmed chip for $5. Just add 5 volts, a TTL serial interface and a clock and there you go. I suggest looking at one of the several chips that have battery-backed RTCs built-in. Get one in DIP format and assemble something on a proto board. BTW, in the next week or two I'm going to be open sourcing (hardware and software) a nifty little count-down counter that I designed for one of our products. It uses the ATmega8515 which isn't a very interesting chip but it has lots of I/O pins which is what I needed. I heavily document my code, especially that which gets released so it would be a good starting point. I'll announce here when I get it finished (boards to be here on Black Friday :-) John > -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.fluxeon.com <-- THE source for induction heaters http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/52953982.5070506%40neon-john.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
