[sdiy] My first big project

[David Brännvall]

> > It would be nice to add some rotary conytrollers/automation midi cc
> automation, but I will start as simple as possible.
> 
> good idea :-)

The rotary encoders or to start simple? :)

> as Jeff said, the AVR range is good, they're cheap and have a host of 
> nice features built in, most iportantly for your application is a hardware
> UART, along with an 8 Channel ADC..

Excellent, sounds like I can do alot of the work in the processor. Programming is my strong side not electronics.

> You can get several C compilers, GCC being the free one, Codevision
> (http://www.hpinfotech.ro) which is a good price and a superb compiler, all
> the way to ImageCraft (more expensive than codevision).
> I use CodeVision C compiler and have always found it superb and easy to
> use... Also the support is excellent. The Monowave was my first C program 
> and was written using CodeVision. You can buy it in two versions lite and 
> standard, lite will do for the basic range of atmel micros, but for the MEGA
> range you need teh standard version. Both Imagecraft and CodeVision 
> have downloadable trial versions for you to play with.

Also good news.

> Also as jeff said there is quite a big avr site at www.avrfreaks.net , I
> wrote an article for them on Midi with the AVR (assembly language) and there
> are several people on the list using AVRs , so you shouldn't have a problem
> getting help on here.

Phew, I got a good feeling about this now, But I have some reading to do before I ask more (possibly) stupid questions.

best regards,
David