From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 30 14:19:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shell-server.com (24-109-11-245.ivideon.com [24.109.11.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25E4A37B406 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14314 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2001 21:16:37 -0000 Received: from betsy.shell-server.com (HELO there) (192.168.3.2) by erin-rl0.shell-server.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 21:16:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bart Kus Message-Id: <200109301616.26229@EO> To: Devin Butterfield , Bakul Shah Subject: Re: precise timing Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:17:44 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200109301730.NAA29134@thunderer.cnchost.com> <200109301311.5635@EO> <200109301933.f8UJXQl74336@db.wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <200109301933.f8UJXQl74336@db.wireless.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 30 September 2001 14:33, Devin Butterfield wrote: > Atmel AVR microcontrollers are < $10 from distributors like Digikey (and > Digikey usually has high prices). They're very slick and VERY FAST. You can > do 12 MIPS with one of their chips. > > Of course you'd need to spend some time learning their instruction > sets/learning how to code in C for them. There is a C compiler in the ports > named avr-gcc to do just that. > > As for programmers, you can program these chips with a simple homebrew > cable that plugs into your parallel port. > > Please see: > > http://www.bsdhome.com/avrprog > > Is that cheap enough? Oh, very nice! Definate contender for "version 2" of this controller. I'd still like to get version 1 working though. Thanks for the info! --Bart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message