so you know every now and again you get an idea which seems really obvious in retrospect?
so i'm currently working on a little radio receiver that's going to live in a RC glider i'm building.
it turned out a little bigger than i would have liked it and i got to thinking how i could reduce the board size.
i usually put UART header pins on anything i build with a microcontroller in it so i can output debug text if i run into software problems.
the breakthrough i had was rather than connect the UART to a computer running terminal software,
i can just save the debug info to the microcontroller's EPROM and then copy it off afterwards using the programming cable and save it as a text file.
like i say, simple in retrospect.
i wonder now why i had never thought of doing it before.
thought it was worth sharing as i've never seen reference to anyone else getting feedback from their microcontroller this way so maybe i'm not the only one missing this useful debug tool.
dunk.