Yes, that 's actually the WMS boot sequence so I don't know what planet you are on?

Modern microprocessors are sold by a few companies that provide generic software bundles so developers can use their products.

Ben Heck used these, and was happy to promote that fact via his Farnell (sorry, Element 14) web channel.

It would be best if some on here actually had some electronic knowledge rather than mouthing off about things that they "think".

Homepin is using the same FREE software tools provided by these companies and everyone else is invited to use them too.

proves you need to change hands

I call it "clutching at straws" - what a crock!

Microchip, Hitachi and many others have free assets available for download on their websites and they actively encourage end users to use these FREE assets so they can get products to market.

This is not a new thing.

So we are clear here, Ben Heck also used these freely provided assets to build his system, certainly as a base for it - that much is very clear to me and plain to see by anyone who is familiar with how these things work in the industry. We did the same, from the ground up.

Let's stop all of the nonsense please.

Let me show a few things here to nip any nonsense in the bud.

Ben Heck used an easily available "hobby" style board to base his system on. This is common practice and freely available to anyone. Below you can see the Digilent board that uses the Microchip PIC32 chip. Microchip makes all the software tools freely available for all to use - Ben used them, we used them and thousands more do as well.

Also have a look at the schematic provided by Digilent (which in itself is a direct copy that was originally provided by Microchip) and compare it with a part of the schematic of AMH (also shown below).

Guess what, they are IDENTICAL. Did Ben "rip Digilent or Microchip off?" NO, he didn't, because these companies provide the information for all to use.

I have also posted a picture of our original development setup - I imagine Ben originally had a similar breadboarded arrangement - it's just "what you do" when starting on a new design.

As for the comments about fonts, come on Ben, you can't be serious.........

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It is all industry standard stuff - there are no secrets or surprises here at all.

You can believe the rubbish being spouted here if you want - all rubbish.

We have no 555's or 556's in our machine - anywhere. Just more crap from "the opposition". They are not in that picture because they don't exist in our machine - not even in the prototypes. In fact, I don't even recall buying any 555/556 chips, certainly not for many years?

Also, for the record, we do indeed use FTDI chips - genuine ones as they are made in China. In fact all of our semiconductors are genuine parts. Some are actually Chinese brand parts and they too are genuine.

We don't use any fake or knock off parts.

Our machine can indeed be updated, I just don't want end users doing it.