"Avery Fineman" wrote in message
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In article , "Tim Wescott"
writes:

NONE of the above is "trivial" nor any sort of "cake" if you've never
worked with microcontrollers or their development systems before.
Almost ANYTHING "doable" can be done but development time and
resulting learning curves are hard to fund at the home hobbyist level.

Au contraire!

Well, I suppose if you are scared to death of solid state electronics and
computers, then perhaps it's really hard. But in this day and age a huge
fraction, bordering on most, amateur radio projects involve some sort of
microcontroller. This isn't some comspiracy, they make the whole project
simpler, less expensive, and more flexible.

Granted, there is a learning curve if you've never done it before, but I
would expect that someone who wasn't totally terrified could learn enough to
make the sorts of changes he might need to an off the shelf project, build
the programming hardware, and get the project working in less
time/effort/money than simply getting a reasonable number of LED digits
wired and driven!

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