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From: Bionic (all posts)
Date: 2000-07-05
Subject: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Re:_Re:=A0HW=A0Q?=
> > > I came to 3 solutions:
> > > (first 2 are offtopic, sorry. someone may be interested..)
> > >
> > > - PC/AT 286: cheap, requires no power supply in the car
> > > - Z80: a cheap and simple architecture is a Sp*ctrum,
> > > - third idea (and this is the "ontopic" part): C64 or plus4.
> >
> > Seriously - forget all these options. What you are looking
> > for is a microcontroller. And for your application a pretty
> > small one for around 3$ should be enough.
> > I recommend you to check out Atmel AVR RISC, as they
> > come with a pretty good evaluation kit, or microchip PIC.
>
> well I know that home computers are not the best solution.
> but I dont want to bother with the PCB, coding a microcomputer,
> burning EPROM's, etc... I'm not a professional mechanic, this
> would be an experiment only. A simple method to measure
> exact 0-100kmh (60mph) acceleration. (Drawing the
> rpm / ingnition timing graph is a bit more difficult I aggree.)
> ...anyways, thx 4 the info. gonna check the URLs.

These are single chip flash microcontrollers. You can reprogam them easily. All you need to use them is a crystal .. :)

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