[Coco] Arduino question

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On Wed 05/10/11  3:42 PM , Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com sent:

> Mark,

> 

> Can you recommend a good low cost (read cheap) dev/evaluation kit for the

> Atmel chips?

> A bit over a month ago I got interested in the "new" generation

> of microcontrollers whenI was looking for a way to cheaply run a stepper motor

for a automated film

> processer. Manyyears ago I got a robot kit on a whim from fry's which got put

away after

> the initial OCD woreoff. The kit used the parallax basic stamp and since then

I've settled on

> the ParallaxPropeller for the film processer.

> 

> I'm not married to that processer and when I finish the program for the

> film processer (I'mresponsible for the controls and a friend is handling the

mechanics) I plan

> on looking at thepicaxe that Steve mentioned last week and think that it would

be a good

> idea to look into theAtmel offerings.

> 

> The Other Frank


Frank:

    We use the ATMega128 in some of our products here. (Controlling Ultrasonic
Welders). We use WinAVR which is a windo$ version of AVR GCC. Take a look at that.

Chris


> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:59:07PM +0000, Mark Marlette wrote:

> > 

> > Several years ago, at one the the ChicagoFests,

> I met a guy that was attempting to use the AVR platform to emulate the

> 6809.> 

> > Not sure what happened to this as I haven't seen

> him there again.> 

> > Chris Hawks worked for him or at the same

> company.> 

> > Chris???

> > 

> > I am very verse in the AVR platform have many of

> the dev kits and tools. It is a blast!> 

> > Regards,

> > 

> > Mark

> > http://www.cloud9tech.com> 

> > 

> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "gene heskett"  tv.com>> To: jdagget at gate

> .net> Cc: "CoCoList for Color Computer

> Enthusiasts"  tedmedia.com>> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 10:52:51

> AM> Subject: Re: [Coco] Arduino question

> > 

> > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:51:52 AM jdagget at gate

> .net did opine:> 

> > And your account at gate.net is refusing my

> messages, James.> 

> > > Gene

> > > 

> > > The ATmel AVRs are more like the HC11/HC12

> in assembly programming.> > 

> > > There are some similarities and uniquicness

> of the AVR that has to be> > taken into account inporting Nitros09 over

> to say an XMega AVR. There> > are 32 8 bit general purpose registers.

> Register 31 and 32 act as a 16> > bit Z register, 29 and 30 would correspond

> to the Y register and 28 and> > 29 would correspond to the X register of

> the 6809.> > 

> > > 6809 code may be easier to port over. Not

> sure if 6309 is real easy or> > not.

> > > 

> > > The XMega series is as powerful an 8 bit

> processor as there is that is> > still in production. There are some neat

> things they do that are> > better. I like the RAMPx instruction where

> any of the 26 general> > purpose registers can be concacted with the

> Index registers to form 24> > or 32 bit registers. You can point to any

> where in a 24 bit memory map.> > There also is a DMA on some

> flavors.> > 

> > > It truly would be a neat project and a

> rather lengthy undertaking to do> > though.

> > > 

> > > 

> > > james

> > > 

> > > On 2 Oct 2011 at 18:07, gene heskett

> wrote:> > > Thanks Mark.

> > > > 

> > > > Silly Q?  Is this atmel chip equipt

> with the command set that would> > > let nitros9 be ported to

> it?> 

> > 

> > Cheers, Gene

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