I plan to build an device that can handle up to 15 -20 inputs and use them for calculations over 6 steps while the following calculation must be based on the prior one + new input it is given. It also has to output the result after every calculation. I am a total noob depending microcontrollers so I dont know how and where to start. Would be happy if someone who is into this stuff could offer a bit of his time so I can explain what I want to use it for and what are the points that matter to me and then give me a hint to the right direction where I should be looking for the information I need to realize that. Thanks in advance PolyToxic
What kind of inputs are these? Sensors? Or just data entered by the user? In the latter case, I'd go for an app on a tablet, for example.
Data entered by user. I also thought that software would be the easier way. Just wanted to know if its possible at all
Of course it's possible. There were more than 6 calculation steps needed to fly to the moon and that worked 49 years ago! ;) However nowadays doing that on a microcontroler is probably indeed not the optimal way. If you do have a clue about math already, you could look at "Matlab". That's a development system with integrated programming language. It's often used by mathematicians to perform complex computations. Input and output are no problem and there are tons of tutorials to learn. Same counts for the free alternative "GNU octave". If you directly want to write an application, look at a programming language like Python and Java. Those are easy to learn. Another way could be to use HTML and JavaScript. So the result is directly a website (it does not necessarily need a server by the way).
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