Free Open-Source is such a game changer for the home hobbyist. Today l learned I can use a Raspberry Pi Zero's GPIO directly as a serial debugger for ARM microcontrollers. That revelation ended up saving me the 100+ bucks it would have cost to ship a J-Link from Segger.
Now I'm going to sound like an old fart, but before arduinos and microcontrollers, machines and applications had to be built with relays or logical chips, hard-wiring the "program". This doesn't mean it's impossible to change: it's just much more complex than just changing a few lines of code.
You would probably love the store I work at. So many other people's unfinished projects have now become my unfinished projects. I swear I'm going to use all these arduinos and pi 's and other microcontrollers for something
This thing is for exactly what your work project sounds like tho: "I want an easy way to control a fleet of microcontrollers that are managing some time critical or hardware specific job; from a PC that is doing the main job/heavy lifting/coordination" I do a lot of projects like those these days
ReactESP (3.0.1) for arduino by Matti Airas , Andrew Carter ➡️ https://github.com/mairas/ReactESP#Arduino#ArduinoLibs
An asynchronous programming library for the ESP32 and other microcontrollers using the Arduino framework. - mairas/ReactESP
I’m thinking I should start building synths. I know nothing about music but I do love some practical electronics. I mostly build stuff with microcontrollers right now but I I do enough programming for work and want to have a hobby that isn’t programming. Sounds like a lot of fun tbh
USART, SPI, and I2C: Serial Communication Protocols Programming PIC Microcontrollers with XC8 - Subero, 2017 Temp link here: sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-1-4842-3273-6_9
It's great that it's a product, honestly. It's a simple thing, but manually implementing this simple logic using microcontrollers and programming is not an easy task at all. I wonder if it can be used to create DIY a walk-in freezer using air conditioner compressors and refrigerant pipes !
Right but at the end of the day, those parts are made to order for vehicles *they made*. Yeah shit like resistors and capacitors and microcontrollers off the shelf because duh. Structural components were not.
EE technician - I've developed and used custom programmers for embedded microcontrollers I think they reprogrammed the uc that works alongside the radio board to process signals & output text, etc. This wouldn't take long, and it's easy to build programmers that work on multiple units at once 1/