Originally Posted by
PA3EXV
This post must make Howard proud once more; After a few others already succeeded in getting a system up and running, I can now as well give you all the good news!...
This is fantastic! Thank you for showing us your work.
Originally Posted by
PA3EXV
Because a collegue at work is very kind and interrested in what I am doing as RC-hobby and electronics, he was so kind to tranfer the breadboard containing over 20 TTL chips into a CPLD...
If you get around to testing and verifying the CPLD, please consider offering the design to our readers. It certainly reduces the component count and the size of the circuit board.
Originally Posted by
PA3EXV
So far I enjoyed contructing and programming very much. In my daily work I never got into PIC-programming so far (despite being occupied into electronics already for over 25 years). I found this project a great drive to start with that, something I would not have started on because there was no big reason to do so. Without a good goal, someone would not start programming assembly or even learn dealing with microcontrollers.
Assembly language is the software for hardware guys! There's nothing like it for basic "bit twiddling", and keeping code as small as possible. Now that you've had a taste of it, I'll bet that you'll find yourself thinking of all sorts of little gadgets that you can make for fun.