Micro-controller, Microcontroller or Micro controller?
Ravenkallen
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Apparently, most spell checks think that the word Microcontroller is spelled wrong. I was under the impression that is the way you spell it(instead of making it two words or using a hyphen)....This has really been bothering me...
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-Phil
Peter...
You can simply add 'microcontroller' to your dictionary OR accept being bullied into 'micro-controller'.
I'd have to say "micro controller" is just plain wrong - a robotic creation of no real use. "Micro" is generally the prefix of a word, not a stand alone word.
Style choices are one's own, but consistent style is very helpful to the reader.
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Generally, the problem is that spelling checkers and computer software have never been able to keep up with linguistic realities. Standardization of spelling is somewhat arbitrary and made even worse by the division between American English spelling (color) versus British English spelling (colour). Computerized spelling, grammar, and translation run into barriers that are huge.
Also, Latin and Greek long ago became accepted prefixes and suffices to English words. Though they may stand alone in their original language, they generally don't in English. So 'micro' in Greek may indeed be a word, but in general English it is accepted as a prefix.
English spelling is a huge mess due to that the fact that so much of English is fabricated from foreign words and often adopted with the foreign spelling and rather unpredictable pronunciation changes. Try to explain to a Frenchman why "Paris" is pronounced differently while having the same spelling as French.
What works for English, won't work for Asians. For instance, Chinese is a closed language with a highly standardized pronunciation and no way to easily adopt the entry of words from foreign languages. So even a movie star's name, like Nicole Kiddman is translated in Chinese phonetics (try saying "Ni-ka-jin-men" and you will be understood) and must be learned by a westerner that wants to talk about her movies. If you want to talk about a Gekko, the Chinese name is literally a 'wall tiger', whilst a kangaroo in Chinese is a 'bag mouse'. And of course you have the problem of getting brush strokes exactly right instead of getting your hyphens and vowels correct.
Just use what is generally accepted. And don't be afraid to customize your computer's dictionary to fit your world.
Well the first time i got it, it was really doing great and it can easily detect tags but after i've soldered it in a pcb, something
went bad. The way it detects the tags, it takes some time or few seconds.
And now it is totally like in a freezing zone, i know when l-e-d is red its active waiting for an action but now its still red but rfid has not doing any actions to sense / detect the tags.
Is there anyone who can help me out or give a solutions to make my rfid reader to function again?
Don't forget to put a clear subject in the new thread.