Propeller has ruined my teaching!
Martin Hebel
Posts: 1,239
I teach 8051 ASM off campus at various military bases as part of our degree program, and man I'm having a rough time at it!!
Wading through slide after slide of registers and peripheral hardware is driving me nuts. The 8051 and most all controllers have so much base knowlege to be learned before even geting to an application has never frustrated me so much. I spent 6 hours today discussing the basics - program counters and op codes - all good, but with hours of timers and registers and more registers and other hardwareto come....ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I've been spoiled by the Prop! Even in lecture I keep mentioning the Prop........
Next semester on campus we can use the Propeller :P
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Martin Hebel
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Electronic Systems Technologies
Personal Links with plenty of BASIC Stamp info
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
Wading through slide after slide of registers and peripheral hardware is driving me nuts. The 8051 and most all controllers have so much base knowlege to be learned before even geting to an application has never frustrated me so much. I spent 6 hours today discussing the basics - program counters and op codes - all good, but with hours of timers and registers and more registers and other hardwareto come....ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I've been spoiled by the Prop! Even in lecture I keep mentioning the Prop........
Next semester on campus we can use the Propeller :P
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Martin Hebel
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Electronic Systems Technologies
Personal Links with plenty of BASIC Stamp info
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
Comments
It is good to hear from various people how the Propeller is affecting their lives. It sure sounded like a great approach, IMHO.
Propellers on campus next semester, hopefully on many campuses.
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Harley Shanko
h.a.s. designn
No calls for support, just my 'chick scratch notes', and the propeller tool (loaded with the blinkled program and the modified vta_text), he's got it running. It's cool to see the lights come on for kids, (literly in this case), I just wish I was home and not in Boston.
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Propeller + Hardware - extra bits for the bit bucket =· 1 Coffeeless KaosKidd
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The Propeller is a real marvel for many reasons but one of my favorites is how Chip designed out the Interrupt. Co-operative multiprocessing in hardware goes a long way to eliminate much of the complexity of software. But what if you could add a full USB HID interface to the Propeller, or Wireless USB board to the Propeller without writing any code. That project is not only a reality, it will be availabel before late fall. I'm in the middle of a book on just such a tool and th boards are in design right now. I think they will make adding some types of peripherals to the Propeller almost instant. I'll provide more information to anyone who is interested when I can.
Oliver
I have an little attache camera case, I'm going to be turning it into a little mobile developer station, LCD TV in the lid, flip out mini keyboard micro mouse. Possibly even a 6v lead acid battery, great for showing people stuff, great for taking into the workshop and great for taking to work for lunch time sessions.
Graham
the graphics are the best part of the propeller.
It would be wonderful if SPIN had a version created to program my PC. It is a very comfortable language and the color coding really helps me recognize what is what.
On the other hand, I wish I had a course available that worked through the 8051 because it is the origins of so many concepts and so much jargon. One needs the background in order to just communicate with others. It is a similar situation with knowing something about many languages.
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Post Edited (Kramer) : 7/29/2006 12:36:34 PM GMT