Pulse counting

Well, you make a good point and remind me I should respond. While it is true the bigger 'Pods (IsoPod(TM) & ServoPod(TM)) can do 26 RC Servos at once, it is more impressive to know, that is in set and forget hardware.

Some day I'll have to sit down and see how many additional RC servos I could drive in software. I'm pretty certain I could drive all the available GPIO pins, for another 22 RC Servos in software, and still have processor time left over. However ostentatious it sounds, 48 RC servos would probably be closer to the "apples-to-apples" comparison.

The 332 TPU is quite a remarkable timing unit. It's also quite the bear to figure out.

I prefer the larger processors for dedicated applications for basically one reason, the large linear address space. I've just begun using MCORE for that reason, and I'm also looking at the ARM processors.

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Randy M. Dumse
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I hadn't paid much notice of Futurlec until you sent me their links.

Talking of really cheap small boards, have you see this MEGAbitty?

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This is based on the Atmel Mega 8 chip Brian mentioned, but in a smaller package.

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Randy M. Dumse

Hey, that looks great! And you gotta love the name :-) I've seen it before but somehow didn't think of it when you asked about commercial boards using the ATmega8. I see they do use the surface mount version which is cool, and it comes as a kit which you put together. Soldering surface mount really isn't all that bad, not nearly as bad as most folks think.

Cheers,

-Brian

-- Brian Dean, snipped-for-privacy@bdmicro.com BDMICRO - Maker of the MAVRIC ATmega128 Dev Board

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looks quite good.

Have you seen the robopede movies ?

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Alex Gibson

I've even had the pleasure of seeing robopede. Probably will again by this afternoon, as I'm headed out to LA to do a project.

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Randy M. Dumse

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