oooOOOooo!!!!! Teensy looks cool!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div></div>I've been using the Teensy++( <a href="http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp.html" target="_blank">http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp.html</a> )<br>
for a project. At $24 it's reasonable to try and if it doesn't work,<br>
you haven't wasted much money. I've cut a PC board with the Teensy++<br>
and the WIZ812MJ Ethernet module<br>
(<a href="http://www.saelig.com/product/ETH042.htm" target="_blank">http://www.saelig.com/product/ETH042.htm</a>, $19.50) to give me a ethernet<br>
connected device with 130K of flash (program) memory, 8K of RAM and 4K<br>
of EEPROM. Believe me you can do a lot with that much memory. It uses<br>
the Arduino development package and is extremely easy to use. The<br>
Arduino development platform is by far the most user friendly one I've<br>
come across. It's easy to run on Linux since the IDE is written in Java.<br>
<br>
It uses the avr-gcc compiler which isn't 100% C++ but it has a lot of<br>
the features. Here's some sample code from one of the libraries.<br>
<br>
class Matrix<br>
{<br>
private:<br>
uint8_t _pinData;<br>
uint8_t _pinClock;<br>
uint8_t _pinLoad;<br>
<br>
There's a lot of software written for the Arduino platform that is<br>
tailored to interfacing to the outside world. Since you are an EET,<br>
you'll not have any problem building the electronics to interface to<br>
most anything.<br>
<br>
The Teensy++ has 46 I/O pings 8 10 bit A/D channels, 9 PWD outputs a<br>
UART, an I2C and an SPI port.<br>
<br>
For instance there are motor control libraries, servo libraries,<br>
ethernet libraries, A/D and D/A libraries, etc.<br>
<br>
Besides, it's fun to watch an led blink and know you're the one that<br>
made it happen. :)<br>
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Jim.<br>
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