I got all the development software installed tonight. And I got an Aten usb2serial cable working. (had to use some openSource driver to achieve that). Then I wrote some sample programs to the ATtiny2313v microcontroller, which happily ate and processed them.
Stage Three? Figure out how to write a proper program to process arbitrary text into morse code blinking.
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This is something I have been thinking about for some time and you beat me to the punch.
I programmed a tiny plc to send Pittsburgh in code for use on one of the buildings down town Pittsburgh and it took all the memory it had to hold the code and data. I can not readily remember how I encoded the data, but I think I just made a table of a big long string of dits, dahs, and spaces. It was never put in service though.
Haven’t beaten you yet. Programming this thing is non-trivial for me. Have to remember ‘C’ which I haven’t thought about for more than ten years as well as figure out the wierdnesses of developing for a tiny RISC device. I am still looking for a decent tutorial.
Sounds like the Arduino is the recommended multipurpose microprocessor toy.
Strangly I have recently been thinking about programming again. Must be the drugs because I was never very good at it. Anyway I have been thinking about it and wondering what to use. I liked pascal but guess it is a thing of the long distant past so will probably look into C. Actually I should ask Jan as he would really know. Wonder if there is an open source or freeware C++