Members techristian Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 I bought a new PIC programmer a few days ago. I'm planning on designing a new synth chip with it. The chip I'm looking at only has 10 channels of 10 bit AD but that is plenty for the types of waves that I will be using and of course I can stack them to create the illusion of more bits. Anyone else brave enough to venture into this ????Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members electrochrisso Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 Could be a lot of hard work.I have been looking into this lately:http://www.raspberrypi.org/Perhaps a combination of the two might be a way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 I've done quite a bit of this at work it's actually kind of fun. There are public domain compilers the would do a lot of the nasty assembly language work for you. I prefer Python for doing the source code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 If you want to try python, try this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members electrochrisso Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 If you want to try python, try this Philbo, that should make it a lot easier to do the programming stuff, I must brush up on my Python programming and try this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 when you reduce it to 1 channels 7 bit AD, I give you venture capital and a free bible of your choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PermaNoobie Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 I have, but not in audio applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted August 10, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2012 I'm in the same place with this as I was in 40 years ago, before I bought my first computer. Back than I asked, "Will I ever be able to program a computer?" Now 40 years later, I'm taking a step out and asking "Will I be able to program this thing ?" I've burned eproms before but this is a whole new thing. I'm estimating at least a year to get the chip going and at least another year to put it into a PCI or USB interface with some useful software, but it could easily be double that. Anyway, it is surprising how much FREE stuff they want to give you to develop these things...software....but software that only works while you are online ? I have 2 chip "samples" coming in a few weeks. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PermaNoobie Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 you may also want to explore the AVR system, essentially PIC's competition. It probably won't take you too long, especially if you immerse yourself in the development community. The electronicsw magainzes also tend to feature quite a bit of microcontroller projects these days which could be helpful learning fodder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted August 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 Thanks for the encouragement PermaNoobie ! Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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