POV Display with the propeller

ke4pjw

Has anyone seen a POV display done with a propeller? I was thinking it might be pretty easy considering fonts exist in ROM.

I recently have graduated from the Basic Stamp to the Propeller, and I must say it is a move that I should have done years ago. I quickly found that SPIN was not fast enough for my current project, so I started learning assembly for the Prop. In just a couple of weeks, I got my code up and working flawlessly. Assembly on this thing is *FAST*. It is also a real joy to program it.

Graham Stabler

Welcome to the forum. I can't agree more the prop is really fast but I find code development faster.

"It ain't what it can do but what YOU can make it do!"

You can use that Parallax marketing if you are reading just send me some free stuff [noparse];)[/noparse]

Graham

VIRAND

When I first made POV displays, I did not have microcontrollers, and they aren't needed.
I made a globe like the Maker Faire Orbs on Youtube, using only PROM and a binary counter.
It used R,G, and old SiC Blue LEDs and switched different images, including "StealYourFace" at a Grateful Dead concert.
Don't ask me why their logo was called that... we should google it.
But my first Microcontroller program ever was a POV display... in MC6805P3S, and soon after, cheaper PIC15C54.

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I should be typing in Spin now.
Coming soon. My open Propeller Project Pages and favorite links index.

JohnBF

Here's a simple POV display I did with a Propeller...

http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=25&m=341807&r=x

Spin was fast enough.

/John

Graham Stabler

hover1 said...
Captain,

That does not compute.

Jim

Graham Stabler said...

Welcome to the forum. I can't agree more the prop is really fast but I find code development faster.

"It ain't what it can do but what YOU can make it do!"

You can use that Parallax marketing if you are reading just send me some free stuff [noparse];)[/noparse]

Graham

To put it another way, there are other powerful micros out there but this one makes doing something with the power really easy.

Graham

Cluso99

virand: The old MC68705P3S. When they were released (1981?) I used to pay $150ea for them. I had a pair on a tiny pcb for an ICL mini to centronics interface I used to sell to ICL. I used the larger MC68705U3S in modems around 1985 at $20ea and they went down to $8 before I designed them out.

BTW, whats a POV?

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