| ??? 01/23/06 15:47 Read: times |
#108098 - And Sarks too! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Alexander Finch said:
Unfortunately my tutor isn't an engineer per se; we're all very much on our own for this. I'm in my third year of a four year electronics course. They've done loads of theory and I can tell you everything about how a ucontroller works, but we've done alarming little hands-on work so component choosing is all pretty alien to me.. This really makes my blood boil. What is the point of turning out engineers who don't know one end of a soldering iron from the other? And it takes four years now. Now they set you something they can't even do themselves??? Which 'University' is this? The project is a vision system for a robot football team. The video part of the circuit is complete as well as much of the program (in C). I just need to find a suitable host for it and a means to program it cheaply (I've got perhaps £50 to spend on the controller snd support circuitry). In my humble and very experienced opinion you are on a hiding to nothing on an 8051 and 50 quid. First you write the code without any idea of the hardware you are going to run it on, then from a high level program you somehow calculate the instruction cycle needs to be about 100nS. This may sound harsh but you need to wake up and smell the roses. If you are doing any kind of image recognition you won't be using an 8051. Pick something like an ARM and buy a single board development kit for it. You'll get a free demo C compiler for it and if your program turns out to exceed the demo limits there are free gcc tools you can use instead. Check out the Philips web site. Ian |
