[Robotgroup] Processor with Hardware Encoder Support

[Paul Atkinson]

Perhaps the $19.95 slae price of a propeller based development board and free software tools will entice some experimentation. Might be a few posts on encoder use at http://forums.parallax.com/forums/

Paul

----- Original Message ----
From: Vern Graner <vern at txis.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:32:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Processor with Hardware Encoder Support

vkonradi wrote:
> Hmmm, difficult decision.  Go with a new chip from a quirky company which targets the hobbyist market?  Or a known and well documented architecture from a huge company that doesn't give a damn about hobbyists, and might obsolete the chip or dev board at any time?

Just my $0.02, but Parallax (no small company themselves actually) has
bet the bank on the new Propeller chip. All their dev and attention is
going that way. They have even been testing a new propeller-based stamp
compatible chip (Paul has a prototype and is a beta tester). I think
they will continue to go after this one chip leading to a large
population of hobbyist support and applications.

Hence the reason I'm flirting with this chip.. :)

Vern

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