[Coco] Arduino question

[chawks at dls.net]

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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