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marcov:

--- Quote from: AlanTheBeast on November 29, 2024, 01:39:15 am ---Sounds too steady state for my needs - or I'm not getting what you're doing.

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Simple, pick up a beer bottle, put it down a meter further. Wine bottle works too, as do jars for vegetables and pickled stuff. I tried an olive oil bottle (here they are typically square) once, and while it could lift it, but was an edge case. It would require punched out the side of the machine, and a better solution for counter weights. Luckily none of our customers has pressurised bottles (like champagne) since those are even heavier.  3 axis (clench, lift and move) using spiral spindles.

It is professional in 24x7 use, but basically a scaled out hobby/maker design and components, like all our electronics. CPU wise, our main workhorse is the micrcohip dspic33<flash kb>MU/MC8xx series.

But since we have our own pick-n-place we are less bound by what is available.


I'm interested in the R4 for some ARM experience, and having SPI and CAN (peripherals that we use a lot) is a pre.  The SPI we use to connect to W5500, which is on said ethernet shield

AlanTheBeast:

--- Quote from: marcov on November 29, 2024, 01:02:53 pm ---I'm interested in the R4 for some ARM experience, and having SPI and CAN (peripherals that we use a lot) is a pre.  The SPI we use to connect to W5500, which is on said ethernet shield

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Not sure using such an Arduino would constitute "ARM experience" as the processor detail is well obfuscated - esp. if you use the Arduino "sketch" IDE.

I'd be interested in programming the the R4 in Pascal but not up to working out how to get it going.

Laksen:

--- Quote from: AlanTheBeast on November 30, 2024, 02:36:35 am ---
--- Quote from: marcov on November 29, 2024, 01:02:53 pm ---I'm interested in the R4 for some ARM experience, and having SPI and CAN (peripherals that we use a lot) is a pre.  The SPI we use to connect to W5500, which is on said ethernet shield

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Not sure using such an Arduino would constitute "ARM experience" as the processor detail is well obfuscated - esp. if you use the Arduino "sketch" IDE.

I'd be interested in programming the the R4 in Pascal but not up to working out how to get it going.

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It says on the page for the product that it's a "Renesas RA4M1" microcontroller

marcov:

--- Quote from: AlanTheBeast on November 30, 2024, 02:36:35 am ---I'd be interested in programming the the R4 in Pascal but not up to working out how to get it going.

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No idea. I also don't know how complicated the R4 is getting it running naked (for the Arduino Due that is quite involved, and I never got around to it)

AlanTheBeast:

--- Quote from: marcov on November 30, 2024, 05:49:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: AlanTheBeast on November 30, 2024, 02:36:35 am ---I'd be interested in programming the the R4 in Pascal but not up to working out how to get it going.

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No idea. I also don't know how complicated the R4 is getting it running naked (for the Arduino Due that is quite involved, and I never got around to it)

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Arduino Sketch is pretty simple - I've used it for half a dozen or more projects - so I assume starting there for the R4 is just as easy.

What I see as problematic with the R4 is the program complexity getting larger (because: more flash and RAM), so managing it all with Sketch might not be ideal.  Don't know (haven't looked) if there are alter IDE's for Arduino - probably are.  There are certainly a lot of libraries out there for various functions and add on boards and devices.

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