Controllers

Hi everyone!

I open this thread to talk and definitely find a final product, a final EARmitter. Lots of questions, sort of controllers and devices but I would like to create the ultimate one.

WHAT?

Our own EARmitter (v1.0).

Raspberry Pi Zero W

https://www.adafruit.com/products/3372

This is the board that I learned how to control GwtS/MwM devices and learn Arduino in general so it's near and dear to my heart. My original is limping along from abuse but I'm still using it for development. I picked it up from Radioshack for ~$20 but you can find them cheaper online. These work perfectly for recording and transmitting at the same time while debugging thanks to onboard USB and a separate UART. While some people don't like the ATMega32u4 chips because of certain little bugs, I've learned how to work around them and the features outweigh the pains.

Depending on your needs, an ATTiny85 or other similar MCU might be all you need. The ATTiny85 doesn't have a UART but it does have SPI. In my library, I use pin #1 for IR output but that's SPI output on this chip. I don't have experience using SPI so I don't know if that is an issue, I can assume we can disable SPI on that pin or it might not even be any issue as is. Given all of this, we can either use this as a standalone device or as a GwtS/MwM endpoint transmitter with commands sent over SPI.

Info about this controller began as a web page which is now at http://www.anotherguywithabeard.com/node/108 in the Developer's section.

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