From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <820bc1260610101904t291e23bdnf6cc64845c9c124f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:04:56 -0500 From: "Eric Smith" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in robotics In-Reply-To: <20061010162339.GG11372@augusta.math.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061010075244.D9128E7C7@mail.cse.psu.edu> <20061010162339.GG11372@augusta.math.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c843e110-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Interesting. This isn't exactly related to Plan 9, but I've got a question: > where do people get this type of hardware? I've looked for solo CPU's and > things, and basically can't find them... There must be millions. Check out http://www.digikey.com/ as one example of a supplier. Atmel is just one manufactuer that produces a whole line. I've used various models of their 8-bit RISC units (they have others) with excellent success. You can write C for them with gcc or use the assembler. The assembler is easy enough but lots of nice libraries already exist for C. See the ATmega8 or others at digikey. Modern MCUs have everything. Very little outboard hardware needed -- much more self contained than that old Z80. Eric