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New Forum for Parallax Propeller Product

Jeff MartinJeff Martin Posts: 760
edited 2009-09-17 19:53 in Propeller 1
Welcome to the Propeller Forum.

This is a public area for discussion of a forthcoming product from Parallax, Inc.· The Parallax Propeller chip.

This is a soon to be released product, so information on it is not yet complete, but we will post some of it here as time allows.

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--Jeff Martin

· Sr. Software Engineer
· Parallax, Inc.

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  • SteveWSteveW Posts: 246
    edited 2006-02-21 15:37
    This is a good thing - even better would be if I could remember how to get the forum to mail me all the threads, like I've got set up for the other forums I watch here. Any hints?
    (Subscribe to forum, subscribe to thread aren't what I'm after - I'd like the thread content, rather than an activity indicator, mailed to me)

    Cheers,

    Steve
  • Martin HebelMartin Hebel Posts: 1,239
    edited 2006-02-21 15:56
    Steve, to sign up for Email, goto control panel, Edit Subsciptions, change the drop down for the one you want.

    -Martin

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  • SteveWSteveW Posts: 246
    edited 2006-02-21 17:37
    That's the chap - thanks.

    Steve
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2009-09-15 03:02
    I just dug way down to the bottom of the last page to resurrect this thread, containing the very first public Propeller post. It just reminded me of how long we've been at this and what an amazing 3½ years this has been! And I think we've still just scratched the surface of what this chip can do. The best is yet to be!

    -Phil
  • Rob7Rob7 Posts: 275
    edited 2009-09-15 03:21
    Jeff,
    Can you give us any "Tid Bits's" of information on what we will expect ?
    If not I understand.
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2009-09-15 03:24
    Lol,

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  • heaterheater Posts: 3,370
    edited 2009-09-15 05:55
    It'll never catch on.

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  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    edited 2009-09-15 06:21
    Re:It'll never catch on.

    I think it will catch on and they might even run out of the 40 pin dip version for a few months, someday. smilewinkgrin.gif

    Post Edited (Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)) : 9/18/2009 10:04:09 PM GMT
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2009-09-15 06:28
    Bob: ROFL

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2009-09-15 11:35
    "who needs a multi-processor?"

    Deffo fun thread.

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  • Agent420Agent420 Posts: 439
    edited 2009-09-15 12:58
    I bet there'll be a big market for this in the future...

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  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-09-15 16:12
    Gracely Sprockets ?

    <G>

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  • JRetSapDoogJRetSapDoog Posts: 954
    edited 2009-09-15 16:56
    Yes, you may: I'll take 8 Coswell Cogs, 8 Gracely Sprockets, and...throw in a side-order of Waitvid Widgets while you're at it, with extra ketchup, hold the mayo.

    Edit:· What?· You're out of Coswell Cogs?· Okay, then I'll just take the regular Cogswell Cogs and a spelling checker, thanks.

    Post Edited (JRetSapDoog) : 9/15/2009 5:01:27 PM GMT
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2009-09-15 17:39
    CounterRotatingProps said...
    Gracely Sprockets ?

    GROAN!

    (I believe that was well outside of forum rules...) [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    OBC

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2009-09-15 19:26
    It seems like it is the same two or three members, that think they have something clever to say, no matter what the subject is.
  • Ken PetersonKen Peterson Posts: 806
    edited 2009-09-15 20:10
    Yeah...some people have nothing better to do. But wait! There IS nothing better to do! smilewinkgrin.gif
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2009-09-15 23:51
    It's.....It's......ALIVE!!!!! freaked.gif

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2009-09-16 00:24
    Hey CRP, you going from clever talk to scare talk. One of these days I might take you up on that, but not today. I got better things to do.
  • Agent420Agent420 Posts: 439
    edited 2009-09-16 10:13
    > It seems like it is the same two or three members, that think they have something clever to say, no matter what the subject is.

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    edit -

    sorry, I thought you said Cleaver.· My bad.

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2009-09-16 10:44
    I do not have time for you either, better things to do.
  • BaggersBaggers Posts: 3,019
    edited 2009-09-16 17:52
    I'm just looking forward to a new thread that goes along these lines, some time in the near future [noparse]:D[/noparse]

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2009-09-16 18:51
    So, what does this have to do with the Propeller?
  • KyeKye Posts: 2,200
    edited 2009-09-17 02:58
    Nothing, Nothing at all!

    (@ ^ _ ^ @)

    ... Aw too late for the last reply.

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2009-09-17 11:08
    You are good CRP, I love the way you turned the conversation around, you are now the victim, and have been maligned. I also like the use of 'labels', I guess I will have to use a 'hard nose', as my avatar, and no graphics please, I can find my own. I also guess, that, when you want a thread to stay consistent with the subject (Propeller or electronics) at hand, you get labeled, in my case, a label of 'hard nosed', but that is alright, I am not offended, I can handle that. I guess some of us can not handle it. This has not been a rebuttal, but some general observations, I am not wanting or expecting a response, nor will I be resorting to platitudinous behavior, I just want to get back to 'hard nosed' threads.

    Ray
  • TreeLabTreeLab Posts: 138
    edited 2009-09-17 14:41
    To get back on track ...

    I see that Parallax has just announced the new RF modules, and states on the front page that they are prop and Stamp compatible. Great! However, it seems that most of the Parallax documentation still provides examples exclusively for Stamp interfaces. Given the large number of posts related to interfacing various sensors, devices, and serial systems, this seems unfortunate.

    Is this an accurate observation or am I missing the prop examples by bad luck?

    Cheers!
    Paul Rowntree
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-09-17 16:26
    Treelab> [noparse][[/noparse]...] Parallax has just announced the new RF modules [noparse][[/noparse]...] seems that
    > most of the Parallax documentation still provides examples exclusively for Stamp interfaces

    Paul,
    the devices just use 1200-9600 baud async serial - there are several good examples of async in the OBEX. Pretty easy to do the protocol in SPIN.

    - H

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    Post Edited (CounterRotatingProps) : 9/20/2009 7:45:42 PM GMT
  • TreeLabTreeLab Posts: 138
    edited 2009-09-17 17:50
    CRP : Quite so, and for those of us that have been here for a while, this does not pose any problems. But the whole point of providing code snippets in the various product docs is to show people (esp. newcomers) how easy it is to get up to speed, and to highlight any gottcha's. It seems odd (to me) that Parallax does not do this for their flagship processors in an even manner. Again, the number of posts concerning basic FullDuplexSerial operation would seem to go along with what I am thinking.
    Cheers!
    Paul Rowntree
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-09-17 18:12
    Paul,

    A curious situation, indeed. A while back, mention was made along the lines of 'if Parallax says it [noparse][[/noparse]the new product] works with one of their processors, then they must have tested it with that processor.' The responses went something like, ' why test a serial device if serial has been working so long? '...

    At the very least, it would make sense to make a simple (software) test rig for the matrix of Proc and Product.
    On product release, that same test setup could then be published as at least a minimal example for folks to learn from and build on.

    RE newcomers getting up to speed: one of the things that might help is to have the OBEX objects rate their level of difficulty. I would think the creator would know best how to rate it. A simple 1 to 5 scale, say, "FirstTry," "Beginner," "Intermediate," "Advanced," and "Very Advanced" would be more than enough of a range. It would also be pretty easy to alter the OBEX website to put in such a rating indicator - there's enough real estate on the page between 'downloads' and 'ratings.'

    What do you all think?

    cheers!
    - Howard

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  • TreeLabTreeLab Posts: 138
    edited 2009-09-17 19:53
    Howard;
    I think that a Degree-of-Complexity index would be very interesting. Even if the code itself was easy to use, something like this would give an indication of how easy to *understand* the object was.
    Cheers!
    Paul Rowntree
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