Sorry for the delay everyone...the last few days here at Parallax have been busy and we have been a little short on resources. I will try to get this taken care of by tomorrow at the latest.
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Sorry everyone! I may have to wrap things this weekend...a bunch of things have come up that required my attention here at Parallax and I had to drop everything else temporarily. A few may have noticed I wasn't even on the forums. One big delay was our Reflow Oven (manufactured in the Netherlands) has seen a few issues in the recent past when suddenly the conveyer chain stopped working. The company doesn't provide schematics for their products (unlike Parallax Inc.) so I had to reverse engineer the board to determine what was wrong with it and fix it. Fortunately the CPU board was almost identical to the control boards I used to build years ago. Z80-based...EEPROM, 74HCTxx logic...Turns out a 74HCT373 failed. Anyway, I just wrapped that yesterday and have some testing today so, if I don't finish it by tomorrow (I should) I will wrap everything on my own time this weekend. There weren't a ton of submissions...Just bad timing.
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Hey Rayman, I loaded down the software and it works fine. Certainly, there's a lot of work ahead, before I'll make good use of it. But it is a big step towards a fantastic application. It just need an idea
Okay everyone, after many apologies for making you wait so long we’re pleased to announce the winner of the contest as Ray Allen (Rayman). The page he linked was the project submission and was quite a bit more than we expected. A prize package will be sent out this week.
Everyone please give a big round of applause and congratulations for Ray, who is also a frequent contributor to these forums!
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I'll add my congrat's here too - well done Rayman (your stuff's always a great help to me).
Will any of the other submissions be forthcoming too?
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Cheers,
Simon
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-) BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
I knew I should have pushed for an over/under category...
So... if there was any doubt in your mind, if YOUR company needs help on the graphics end of things or if you just have a craggy problem that requires a fresh thinker with a wonderfully articulated brain... Rayman is a safe bet[noparse]:)[/noparse]
Thanks everybody! Ok, maybe I went a little overboard... But, I had fun playing with this thing. It happens to bring several of my hobby interests together... Maybe this will inspire 4D to give us a uOled-128-Prop!
They let me post it to OBEX myself, so I just finished doing that. It's also still on my web site.
There's a bunch of stuff there that could also be used in other projects...
Turns out that many displays use a similar interface... The PPI engine (hacked SPI engine) could come in useful.
The auto-baud detection scheme seems to work well. Would be even better if converted to assembly.
I've added in one of Clemen's secret fonts (8x12) with clever usage of the ROM font.
I've figured out the trick of reading from GRAM. This could actually be used as fast, general-purpose RAM...
There code there for reading from (all types) and writing to Windows Bitmaps.
I haven't looked into the details of the project yet, but it looks neat. I was thinking about coupling in an ASM driver for super fast screen udpates, but maybe you achieved that already.
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
I did do a quick and dirty conversion to assembly. Had to do it to get pictures/animations from SD card to draw at a reasonable rate. It could probably be improved. I think the best frame rate from SD card was only ~10 fps (I haven't had time to carefully measure that). It would be nice to boost that to at least 24 fps with a sound channel too...
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jazzed
I was curious to see the outcome of this.
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Chris Savage
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Post Edited (ErNa) : 5/18/2008 1:58:29 PM GMT
I posted it here:
http://www.rayslogic.com/propeller/3rdPartyHardware/uOLED-96-Prop/RS232Driver.htm
Everyone please give a big round of applause and congratulations for Ray, who is also a frequent contributor to these forums!
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Dave Ratcliff· N6YEE
Congratulations, and thanks for share your ideas...everytime.
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Regards.
Alberto.
(Do share with us what you find in that Parallax box!)
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Will any of the other submissions be forthcoming too?
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Cheers,
Simon
www.norfolkhelicopterclub.co.uk
You'll always have as many take-offs as landings, the trick is to be sure you can take-off again ;-)
BTW: I type as I'm thinking, so please don't take any offense at my writing style
I don't have a uoled (yet), but thanks for all·the inspiration on your website also. You definitely deserve it.
Clemens
So... if there was any doubt in your mind, if YOUR company needs help on the graphics end of things or if you just have a craggy problem that requires a fresh thinker with a wonderfully articulated brain... Rayman is a safe bet[noparse]:)[/noparse]
They let me post it to OBEX myself, so I just finished doing that. It's also still on my web site.
There's a bunch of stuff there that could also be used in other projects...
Turns out that many displays use a similar interface... The PPI engine (hacked SPI engine) could come in useful.
The auto-baud detection scheme seems to work well. Would be even better if converted to assembly.
I've added in one of Clemen's secret fonts (8x12) with clever usage of the ROM font.
I've figured out the trick of reading from GRAM. This could actually be used as fast, general-purpose RAM...
There code there for reading from (all types) and writing to Windows Bitmaps.
I haven't looked into the details of the project yet, but it looks neat. I was thinking about coupling in an ASM driver for super fast screen udpates, but maybe you achieved that already.
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP
www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
I think parallax should employ you as a consultant as you are such a prolific coder!
Cheers,
Graham
KK
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Propeller + Hardware - extra bits for the bit bucket =· 1 Coffeeless KaosKidd
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Fortunately (or unfortunately?) I already have a pretty good job right now...