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2022-05-17 3:35 pm
@thrandell Very cool, and dam you, now I have another thing to check out!!!!
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-05-18 11:56 am
I think that I owe you an explanation of my melodious robots.
No problem Tom, and thanks for the information.
I find this stuff very fascinating reading and thus learning.
Cheers
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2022-05-18 11:12 pm
Very cool, and dam you, now I have another thing to check out!!!!
Your comment got me thinking about the Raspberry Pi Pico and that maybe I need to join the world of low voltage MCUs. All of the sensors and motor controllers that I use in my robots accept 3.3V, so why not? I could start by porting my existing toolkit of C sketches. It's food for thought anyway.
Tom
To err is human.
To really foul up, use a computer.
2022-05-19 2:01 am
@thrandell However if you need WiFi you will need to mount the pico in a holder and add an ESP01.
Here is a picture of one that Bill recently used or similar with the ES01 attached (pencil points at it. The problem is of cource this is a much bigger board, 3.5" x 2.5" (with WiFi board over 10cm by 70)
I suspect there are other choices in the ESP family with WiFi, low power and possibly 5V -> 3.3V LDO built in.
Personally I would check the esp3 family first, it's the latest from espressif.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-05-19 3:16 am
However if you need WiF
Nope.
To err is human.
To really foul up, use a computer.
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2022-05-19 3:22 am
@thrandell Then the PICO will be great, keep us informed of progress.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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