Best Propeller Threads of 2010

Heater.

A little pre new year fun and something that may be useful. We are always losing those ever so clever, useful and significant thread around here. There have been classics like Bill Hennings announcement of the invention of LMM years ago, or the opening up of the Spin interpreter.

So here I'm inviting nominations for the best Propeller threads of 2010. Open to those threads that were actually started this year.

To kick off I'd like to propose a couple of my favourites:

1) lonesock's concise floating point for the Prop. There he magically combines all the most needed float functions from the old floating point code into a single COG. Whilst at the same time improving performance. http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?127302-F32-Concise-floating-point-code-for-the-Propeller&highlight=float32

2) Bill Henning again with his VMCog which shows lots of promise for external RAM systems:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?119725-VMCOG-Virtual-Memory-for-ZiCog-Zog-more-%28VMCOG-0.976-PropCade-TriBlade_2-HYDRA-HX512-XEDODRAM%29&highlight=VMCOG

3) Jazzed's 32MB SDRAM external RAM for the Prop: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?127044-NEW-SDRAM-Module-for-Propeller-Platform

4) Martin Hodges Arduino Compatible Propeller board:http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?124288-Propeller-A.S.C.-%28Arduino-Shield-Compatible%29&highlight=arduino+compatible

5) Beans explanation of CORDIC for Dummies : http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?127241-CORDIC-for-dummies&highlight=cordic+dummies


OK that's more than a couple. What have you got?

Humanoido

If you follow my signature link, which is simply a linking test, go way down and see the following categories with links that I refer to often.

Other Useful References
Some Favorites

sssidney

Dave Hein's Spin LMM was great. Useful and informative.

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?123514-Spin-LMM-Pasm&highlight=Spinlmm

Clock Loop

Only 2010 started threads?

(cause I wanted to nominate megbaud thread as a best.)

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?99222-Propeller-DEMO-%2814.5-Meg-Baud%29-High-Speed-Prop-to-Prop-Serial-Communication&highlight=megbaud

Kye

My FATEngine... which is located somewhere over the rainbow.

lonesock

I've really enjoyed reading through Beau's Prop II update blog:

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?125543-Propeller-II-update-BLOG

Jonathan

HShanko

I'd nominate the thread which had wjsteele's Wingman EFIS (see www.VirtualHUD.com for a video showing off the unit). Only I don't recall the thread title. It might have been with the 4.3" touchscreen LCD thread. A very interesting product and design, imho.

markaeric

This is a tough one. Perhaps list a bunch of thread categories (video, math, IO, etc.) and then nominate the best from each?

jazzed

@Heater thanks for including the 32MB SDRAM thread.

I think the ZOG thread deserves some mention as it brings a GNU toolchain to Propeller.

Two other threads that have me excited are the Full Color Tile Driver thread and the Spin Simulator thread.

Cluso99

There are way too many for me

* Martin's Propeller A.S.C. (Arduino Shield Compatible) http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?124288-Propeller-A.S.C.-(Arduino-Shield-Compatible)&highlight=Arduino+prop because it has a good chance to introduce Arduino fans to the prop (not that it really interests me personally).

* Micah's Full Speed 12Mbps USB Host controller http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?121321-Working-full-speed-(12-Mb-s)-bit-banging-USB-Host-controller&highlight=usb+scanlime for it's huge potential and proving you can never say the prop cannot do something.

There are many other projects that are not yet complete enough to have an impact and when they do they will be more than a year old Unfortunately, we all seem to lack enough time for an unpaid hobby.

Martin Hodge

I second the ZOG thread.

@Cluso. Thanks for the nomination!
(PS: Have you seen the http://shieldlist.org? For a Propeller enthusiast it doesn't have to be about Arduino, it's about the hardware! )

Cluso99

Martin: Where is your entry in this list? Yes, of course your shield also opens up the shields to the prop enthusiasts too. I have special interests where I mostly develop my own pcbs.

Martin Hodge

Where is your entry in this list?

I submitted an entry weeks ago which apparently was ignored.