[sdiy] Microcontroller selection!

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

Bret,

In my not so humble opinion the word BASIC means it's broke and evil. A lot
depends on usage. If you need a great deal of speed to do something these
will not work. A number of these 'basic' things can only run a few thousand
lines of code a second. Where coding something in assembly or with a good C
compiler can get you a lot more performance out of the chip. Atmels are
great for higher end stuff, PICs for lower end simple bit banging.

Good coding.
Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Bret Truchan
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:08 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] Microcontroller selection!
>
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> You must love those Amtels! You recommended them for my other project as
> well! :-) I'll consider them... but what do you think about the
> BASIC Stamp
> 2p 40-Pin Module?
> (http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=BS2P40-IC)
> (I need at least 20 I/O pins.)
>
> I would almost rather go with a basic stamp, since if this module is
> intended to be programmed by your above-average music hacker, the
> tools look
> friendly and I know there are lots of resources out there.
>
> However, thanks a ton for your input.  If other people agree with
> you, then
> that's the route I'll need to take.  It's a little painful to think that
> I'll need to do _another_ re-design, as it's quite possible that
> by the time
> I'm done, I'll have poured in so much money that I'll never be
> able to break
> even.  I suppose that's my fault for making such a fine and polished
> "prototype". :-(
>
> Cheers!!!
> - Bret
>
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