Gadgetman!
Active member
Hi!
I was in on the KS for the 3.6 way back when because it looked like an EPOC item...
And now I'm about to embark on my first little project(no not a blinking LED... )
I'm hoping to read a uSD card, open a file and read some text from it, then display that text on a text-LCD (a 4004 panel, that is: 4 lines of 40 characters. Yes, it's a 3.3V model)....
This will of course be expanded on later...
I picked the 3.6 because of its massive amounts of RAM. I hope all that is accessible using Sketches...
Since my C++ skills are non-existent(tried it in the 90s, hated it even more than regular C), I'm going the way of the Duino for this...
Is the RTC accessible using stock Duino Sketch commands?
Can it be setup to trigger a HW interrupt?
(To use the Interrupt functions in Sketches)
As for my programming experience...
I was 'reasonably OK' on my brother's Speccy in the 80s, went to school and learned the 'pro' way using ADA on DEC in the early 90s. (Before ADA95)
I've programmed assembly on 8051 (classic timer project with up to 8 relays, several independent and overlapping programs, countdown timer, correct calendar from 1980 to 2080. Yeah, it was a big mess... )
I've perpetrated some Pascal, I like REXX(under OS/2),
did some HW hacking on the Psion Organiser II, wrote OPL programs on the Series 3 and 5,
played around with Parallax BASIC Stamps, and even tried a bit of Spin on their Propellers(Never really did anything with them, though. They're still incredible... )
Anyway, my Teensy is plugged into a Cakeboard, the spare is in it's plastic baggie in the box of parts, I have a large cup of tea...
It's Coding Time!
I was in on the KS for the 3.6 way back when because it looked like an EPOC item...
And now I'm about to embark on my first little project(no not a blinking LED... )
I'm hoping to read a uSD card, open a file and read some text from it, then display that text on a text-LCD (a 4004 panel, that is: 4 lines of 40 characters. Yes, it's a 3.3V model)....
This will of course be expanded on later...
I picked the 3.6 because of its massive amounts of RAM. I hope all that is accessible using Sketches...
Since my C++ skills are non-existent(tried it in the 90s, hated it even more than regular C), I'm going the way of the Duino for this...
Is the RTC accessible using stock Duino Sketch commands?
Can it be setup to trigger a HW interrupt?
(To use the Interrupt functions in Sketches)
As for my programming experience...
I was 'reasonably OK' on my brother's Speccy in the 80s, went to school and learned the 'pro' way using ADA on DEC in the early 90s. (Before ADA95)
I've programmed assembly on 8051 (classic timer project with up to 8 relays, several independent and overlapping programs, countdown timer, correct calendar from 1980 to 2080. Yeah, it was a big mess... )
I've perpetrated some Pascal, I like REXX(under OS/2),
did some HW hacking on the Psion Organiser II, wrote OPL programs on the Series 3 and 5,
played around with Parallax BASIC Stamps, and even tried a bit of Spin on their Propellers(Never really did anything with them, though. They're still incredible... )
Anyway, my Teensy is plugged into a Cakeboard, the spare is in it's plastic baggie in the box of parts, I have a large cup of tea...
It's Coding Time!