On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Danny Sauer wrote:
Pic Micro chips are kinda fun to play with, and you can make them do actual useful stuff. If you wanna play with assembler in a semi-instant gratification way, check them out.
From time to time I've thought about playing with pics. I've used the popular, though limited, Basic Stamps from Parallax and gotten some use out of them as embedded sensor pollers in a PV power system for my house. They're really toys though (programmed in basic, no interrupts, etc.), and unfortunately until relatively recently they needed Windows to download the firmware to them. On top of that they're kind of expensive - not to mention proprietary - compared to the pic chips themselves. I've often thought that getting a gcc-based setup on linux for programming pic (or Atmel's AVR) chips directly would be so much better, but I've never had the time to do the research and pull everything together. (Yes Novell, that's a hint.) Do you have a working setup? If so, I'd like to hear about it. Oh, and just to stay on-topic(?).. anyone ever heard of 1108s, 1802s? Cosmac VIP ring a bell? -John (-really- dating himself)