Quote Originally Posted by wossname View Post
Are any of you coders interested in electronics?
ME !! ME !! ME !! ME !! I love electronics !!!

I especially love microcontrollers (PICs). I like it because it is not all electronics, it is programming too, and there are an infinite things you can do with them... I do programming in mikroC PRO.

Probably you remember about my CNCs:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=565474
and the second one:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=610022

Other things I've done since then:
Wireless communication between computer and microcontroller or between 2 microcontrollers, using ER900TRS transceiver. It's not fast, but it's easy to use...
Ethernet shield using ENC28J60. This allows the microcontroller to be on the network, and have a mini web-server (or client) on the microcontroller. So for example anywhere from the internet you can connect to the microcontroller and turn on/off stuff in your home, or check status of something, etc...
And since I have an iPhone, I can connect to the microcontroller using my iPhone`s browser through the Ethernet shield cool stuff

The most recent thing that I got is this: PCI8255 It has 72 I/O bits, you can connect it to a (or multiple) microcontroller(s), and transfer data back and forth. This can be used for many things...

I also got this 34 CHANNEL LA1034 LOGICPORT LOGIC ANALYZER to debug my applications. AND... even though the logicport is all digital, I use an AD9059 analog to digital converter to measure analog signals up to 60MHz.

Recently I also got the chance to work with Arduino. A friend needed help with his school project.
I found it too simple. The Arduino IDE interface is ridiculous (basically notepad). I checked in the settings "Use external editor", and I used Programmer`s Notepad to write the code for it.
The only advantage I see for it, is that you get the hardware made for you, and you just plug it in, and start coding...