Thanks bigdog
I hope all is well in your bit of the world, Greeetings from the "East Midlands"!
I have appreciated your input on things, "
so what would you suggest" would be my 1st question... I've seen PIC18/24/32 demoboards on ebay that look inviting, ! I consider you a serious guru so I will follow any suggestions.... I think a wireless-web-server based board would be ideal next.. Or at least ethernet.. Have you any kit like that you can get me started with?
BUT!!! I have just had an old Laserjet HP literally just turn up at my house for scrappage... Motors/driver IC's, bearings and shafts etc are always useful, but, hopefully (As all "Laserjet 5 era" printers,and a lot of old Cisco Routers, it will have in it a
680x0's in!!!!! I would love to "Move back home".
I learned to properly code by getting into the Demo circuit on the 68000 Atari ST about 20 years ago. Demo sources for MOD musicplayers, scrollers, 3d etc were my choice of "Pulbic Domain" rewards for sending my demos in. I bought HiSoft DevPak registered) Graphics coding has been a good lesson in lots of things, hardware, binary maths, bitplanes, masks, matrices, etc)
I've been writing and dissasembling 680x0 code from the age of 15 (removing protection from games, the "Laserburn" on Rampage (atari ST ~1990) so I still feel its my "prefered" language and would happily look at the printers code to get me started.. The ST did have a lot of helping hardware, VBL & HBL interupts, Blitter (STe) and things, but I might not get that far... An easier way would be an old 2600 router. There was a "forum competition" somewhere once I missed based around reprogramming cisco kit for interesting things, the bootloader and massive onboard resources would make an old 2500 "perfect" for that sort of thing... !
Neal
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ps I'm just integrating the Robot-car and the "Display panel" genres... The robot's going to be able to tell it it loves you after in bumps into you...
Neal