AVR-Chat

Hi Alex,

Thanks! I had seen the name but not this specific product. It looks
great and has a nice form factor, too.

Have folks in this group used this board?

They promote this intermediate language to control the MCU. How is
that perceived? Is it a benefit? Or does it remove the user from more
direct access to machine functionality? Is it possible to 'bypass'
this language and just use regular assembly programs on this device?
(is this documented/recommended?)

Thanks for the great pointer!

Gert

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Shepherd" <lists06@...> wrote:
>
> > All I need is a USB based little blob with an MCU inside to 
> > get the data from sensor or via ADC and send it to the PC. A 
> > little program on the PC would display the data. There are 
> > AVR devices that have pretty good spec like built in USB and 
> > ADC. (like ATmega16U4, AT90USB162 etc)
> 
> You might want to consider the Arduino platform/environment and in
> particular this module 
> http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano which has a bunch of
general
> purpose Digital and Analog I/O and I2C and SPI etc to interface to
common
> sensors. 
> 
> Also there is some firmware called Firmata:
> 
> http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Firmata
> 
> which is essentially turns the Arduino hardware board into a remote
> controlled I/O device that can be controlled from various high level
> languages on the PC.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alex
>