Can the BS2 handle this?

lassethomsen

Hi.

I have been playing around with the BS2 chip and board of education that came with my HexCrawler.
Im actually considering to make a part of my project on the BS2 chip, but im not sure the chip is powerful enough.
So can the BS2 handle this, with its limited 2K bytes memory.

Handling the servocontroller.
Handling the PING.
Making a basic AI, that make sure that my HexCrawler does walk around objects, not into.
And finally, reading info from a RFID chip, trough the Parallax RFID cardreader.

Is this possible on the BS2 or should i stick with a propeller for this?

Franklin

The BS2 should be able to do all of this but the propeller will be more fun and if you decide to add more it will not run out of capability as soon.

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latigerlilly

It should be fine. Considering that the servos require a 20 ms pause, you can slip at least 20 other commands in there and it will be O.K. If you have to slip more commands in there, it would still be O.K. The HexCrawler will just have to crawl slower, that's all.....

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Post Edited (latigerlilly) : 2/25/2007 6:18:33 PM GMT

lassethomsen

Hi thanks for your replies.

But with only 2k bytes EEPROM, can the chip it self hold all the program?
The Hexcrawler legtest takes up around 30% af othe EEPROM, and that is a small program.