Dad had me take pictures today for a project that he's been working on which he is submitting to a contest. I got distracted for a little while and went off taking macro pictures of his work. What you see here is a Parallax Propeller chip. It has eight 80-something MHz processors in one chip, and is thus pretty powerful for most micro-controller type applications. Not that any of you know what that means...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Day 287: Computer Parts
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Far too condescending, Steve.
Microcontrollers are small self-contained computers, which have processors, onboard RAM, and limited memory, for use in the control of small tasks that need no human interference.
But 8x80 Mhz is pretty fast for a microcontroller. What is he using it for?
It is indeed! He's using it for a lot of things, we have like 5 of them in our house. This project in particular, which he build custom from the ground up and programmed is for USB to CAN interaction. It's pretty cool.
Check out http://propcan.moraco.us/ for more, oh... and I did the pictures for that site too :D
Darn...I was just reading that too, and was going to make a comment along the same lines as Tom....only he beat me to it...Oh well.
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