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What Propeller based projects have you worked on?

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The Propeller microcontroller is one of the most inspiring chips I've ever read about. An 8-core, or 8-cog as they call it, MCU made by Parallax, that can be clocked from 32khz to 80Mhz. This chip was first introduced in 2006, it was ahead of the game. Only now has other MCU companies started down the multiple core path. It takes the MCU 4 clock cycles to execute a command, resulting in 20 MIPS (million instructions per second) per "cog," or 160 MIPS with all 8 cogs.

So much could be handled by this chip. In the QFN package, it would make an excellent multiple imput portable video game system processor. But I am getting ahead of myself. First I have to ask, what have you tried with a Propeller microcontrollerPropeller microcontroller?


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    Hi,

     

    when I first got in contact with this exciting piece of hardware, I also was wondering what would be possible with it.

     

    So, to get deeper into the structure, programming (especially the internal SPIN-language) and the concept of parallel processing I selected a little project shown on the Parallax-Website: Thumper Internetradio... ( http://www.parallax.com/Thumper/tabid/848/Default.aspx ). And to be honest... I am still very impressed with how well it works... how easy it is to modify different parts... to get even more extensions running... how powerful it is.

     

    My first (and so far only) own project is a complete control for a webbased remote telescope (astronomy) and the according observatory. All is done by just this one controller... webserver and networking, motor control, analysis of different sensors (rain, temperature etc.), lighting control (dimming), heating and even a small basic-mp3-player for the beloved sound image There still is potential for further expansions... and a really great base of free libraries and codesamples available.

     

    Not thought about using it as a portable video game processor yet... the examples for this on the manufacturers website are kind of 80s style image

     

    Christian

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    Hi,

     

    when I first got in contact with this exciting piece of hardware, I also was wondering what would be possible with it.

     

    So, to get deeper into the structure, programming (especially the internal SPIN-language) and the concept of parallel processing I selected a little project shown on the Parallax-Website: Thumper Internetradio... ( http://www.parallax.com/Thumper/tabid/848/Default.aspx ). And to be honest... I am still very impressed with how well it works... how easy it is to modify different parts... to get even more extensions running... how powerful it is.

     

    My first (and so far only) own project is a complete control for a webbased remote telescope (astronomy) and the according observatory. All is done by just this one controller... webserver and networking, motor control, analysis of different sensors (rain, temperature etc.), lighting control (dimming), heating and even a small basic-mp3-player for the beloved sound image There still is potential for further expansions... and a really great base of free libraries and codesamples available.

     

    Not thought about using it as a portable video game processor yet... the examples for this on the manufacturers website are kind of 80s style image

     

    Christian

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