RE: Re: Automate the washing machine's signals???

["Alistair Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Would now be a good time to suggest an embedded bluetooth microcontroller,
such as the BlueCore from CSR (www.csr.com) you can swipe the boards out
of most cheap bluetooth dongles (£30) if you can work out how to program
them ;)
they typically have 8 or 16 IO lines and 1 or 2 A2Dc... the whole thing is
a sinch to write, and they run DCHP wonderfully...

Anyhow, thats what i'd suggest...I'm knocking up a Bluetooth PIR at the
moment actually, what fun

Ali
(oh, and i recomened this not just because CSR gave me a bundle of free
kit, I really do think this is a cool way of doing home control.. if you
have a massive house you may need to build repeaters though, but WLAN is
so high powered.. these little modules run hapilly on a 9v battery)

HTH

ian.bird@xxxxxxx said:
>>Pah! Heretic! ;)
> Feel those fires burning now..................
>
> You are right of course about almost any decent spec uC being able to
do
> Ethernet. Of course Microchip did not treat me to a meal and bunch of
> goodies and playing with the memory problems on their 8k chips drove
me to
> Atmel in the first place. In my case the PRLLC stuff comes royalty
free
> and in the compiler I use and on a hardware base that I have invested
in
> the development tools for. Pretty convincing arguments really.
>
> The lack of DHCP will not stop me developing applications etc. and it
can
> always be added afterwards given enough knowledge and patience.
>
> Atmel actually do an Ethernet  dev kit but it is a little expensive
for my
> budget.
>
> Ho hum, off to play with my samples of 1 wire 4k eeprom from Dallas.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
> 06/01/2004 21:19
> Please respond to ukha_d
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>         To:     <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
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>         Subject:        RE: [ukha_d] Re: Automate the washing
machine's
> signals???
>
> You wouldn't be saying that if Arizona Microchip had treated you to a
> nice slap up meal in a swanky hotel to launch their new products, and
> given you a sackful (well, a CD binder full) of goodies into the
> bargain!!
>
> By which, of course, I mean to say that Ethernet is possible on pretty
> much any of the decently specced MCUs from Microchip.
>
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