http://robots.net/person/steroidmicros/ robots.net blog for steroidmicros en-us mod_virgule Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:06:21 GMT Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:51:17 GMT http://robots.net/person/steroidmicros/diary.html?start=0 http://robots.net/person/steroidmicros/diary.html?start=0 As an observer, I am unable to respond directly to "jeffkoenig" "Pretty Cool, But.." post regarding the WildFire microcontroller. But, Jeff makes some interesting observations and I would like to address them. <p> The "Technical Documentation" link should be to www.steroidmicros.com/downloads/WildFireUM.pdf, not ../WildFirePR.pdf. <p> Jeff is right that the I2C signals do not come off the board. That is, they are not connected to the headers. <p> The LCD port and software libraries support standard single character based LCDs up to 2 lines x 40 characters or 4 lines x 20 characters. Other displays can be connected, but they require custom harnesses and custom drivers (i.e., "roll your own"). <p> The on-board LCD contrast pot is a single turn pot and the contrast "sweet spot" is less than ¼ turn and varies from LCD to LCD and varies with temperature. A multi-turn pot would have been nicer and a temperature compensation circuit, nicer yet ..all at the cost of realestate and money. <p> Again, Jeff is right: the picture is an old one of a Beta version of the board. Pictures on our website are current and, yes, this is now a real "off the shelf" product.