[Elecraft] "New K3 utility software required" message on my K3?????

[Dick Dievendorff]

It is indeed amazing. We found a PIC32 knock off for an Arduino Uno for $26. Unfortunately or fortunately our engineering staff is quite small and enough of an existing code base that ports are non trivial. 



Dick

On Jan 22, 2012, at 11:21, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ....It's a long way from the Microchip PIC18 we're using in the K3, KX3, and
>> KPA500 (64K instruction words, 4K RAM, 1K EEPROM)  to the devices used in an
>> iPhone...
> ===========
> Yeah, very true, Dick. I know enough PIC programming to realize that
> you have done a great job to squeeze so much functionality out of that
> instruction repertoire. But the price of processing keeps coming way
> down (Raspberry Pi 25 bucks, just for one of many examples), so I
> guess someday there will be a new generation.....
> 
> Tony KT0NY
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