[time-nuts] IRIG-B with Arduino

[Bruce Lane]

	I must not have made myself clear. I certainly plan to use the development environments on my PC. That is, after all, why I loaded up AVR Studio and the IAR packages.

	Can you provide a link for the NTP thing you mention?

	Thanks.

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********

On 15-Dec-10 at 20:27 Chris Albertson wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Bruce Lane <kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com>
>wrote:
>>        ..... I'll be learning both C and AVR assembler as I go along,
>but the way I learn best is to actually DO something with programming ...
>
>I agree with the last part.  Learn by doing some real project.   But
>no the first part.  The best platform for learning is a "full size"
>computer with a real OS on it.  Programming a micro-controller s MUCH
>harder than programming a LInux desktop machine.  I've done both,
>pretty much full time now for 30 years.   In fact if I want to get
>something to run on an AVR in C I will write and mostly debug the code
>as much as I can on the big Linux computer.  The  there are some
>simulators too.  Of course you have to move to the target hardware as
>some point but it is always best if you plan the project so that you
>can delay that time.
>That is one of the major advantages of the AVR over PIC, the AVR works
>well with C so you can to more of the work on the bigger computer.
>Getting back to the time code project.  Do look at the generator in
>NTP.  Run it on the desktop and study the code
>
>
>-- 
>=====
>Chris Albertson
>Redondo Beach, California
>
>_______________________________________________
>time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
>To unsubscribe, go to
>https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
>and follow the instructions there.
>
>__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
>signature database 5706 (20101215) __________
>
>The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
>
>http://www.eset.com


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"Quid Malmborg in Plano..."