gbell@pnet12.cts.com (Greg Bell) (04/28/89)
>I am looking at build a small microcontroller system based on the 8052H >as discussed a couple of years ago in BYTE magazine. It was used in a >project by Steve Cercia(sp). > >My question is what do I use the controller for after it is up and running? >Any good ideas, pointers to books, etc on hooking it up to the real world >or in useful things to do with a microcontroller? > >Thanks > > -- Carlos Qualls > Intel Corp. M/S HF2-73 > 5200 N. E. Elam Young Parkway > Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 > (503) 696-7532 > littlei%clq | littlei:clq > ...!tektronix!reed!littlei!clq | clq@littlei.hf.intel.com > ...!uunet!littlei!clq | clq@littlei.uu.net That's sort of a strange question. It seems to me you would have to have an application in mind in order to be interested in building such a circuit in the first place! I have an 8031 circuit on some bread boards on my desk. I have it interfaced to a DTMF decoder, on/off hook detection circuit, and a 16x1 character LC display. I'm using this setup to fool around with the 8031 (its the first microprocessor circuit I've ever built). Recently, I added a tiny Rs-232 interface (just an optocoupler) and wrote a program so I can upload Intel Hex files to the circuit. That way, I get around having to burn a new EPROM for each change I make in whatever program I'm working on at the time. A microcontroller can give old and new projects exciting new possibilities because they suddenly develope the power to make decisions and store information. Greg Bell_________________________________________________________ Hardware hacker | Electronics hobbyist | UUCP: uunet!serene!pnet12!gbell EE major at UC San Diego |