[McHUG] Welcome and Where We might be Going

[Rich Mitchell]

> Thanks for the link.  I've signed up.  Please let me know when you guys are
> meeting (experimenter committee) because I would like to join you!!  I am
> working with microprocessors at work right now so it falls in line with my
> job. I am ready to start building projects again.

John,

Thanks for signing up and welcome.  There are now 8 of us on the list:
John AK3Z
Dick K3KWL
Bill W3STG
John K3KWO 
Chuck KJ4GU 
Steve N3SB 
Pete W3GVX
Rich N3III

We had a meet to eat last Friday at Stables with 4 McHUGgers showing up.  We are looking at Saturday, April 19th as a time to get together to melt some solder (workshop).  We seem to be gravitating toward the Atmel AVR microprocessor.  I have ordered a number of the Bare Bones Boards from Modern Device which contain the ATmega168.  Those can be programmed with Arduino (a C++ based package that does all the complex stuff behind the scenes using their own header files) or with plain old C, both for free.  According to the tracker these left Frederick this morning so I should get them today or tomorrow.  We'll try them out as a platform for workshops.  We are also playing with Butterflys (ATmega169) and Atmega128s.

Several of us are playing with frequency generators like the DDS60 or the Si570.  One project that I am trying to do is an Atmel chip controlling a frequency generator into a rockless RockMite.

What microprocessors are you using at work?  And what language are you programming in?

73,
Rich, N3III

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