Kiln Controller Programme Compiler

I finished the programme compiler last night; it's in a beta state so it might be buggy. It allows me to very quickly compile firing shedules into a binary file, the binary file can be either burnt into the flash memory chip; or uploaded to the controller via serial RS232. This change makes the existing controller programme selection code obsolete, so this will need to be re-coded.

Memory Chips

Finally the new 64K flash memory chips arrived yesterday, so last night I checked each one on my basic JDM programmer and they appeared to work fine. Tonight's task is to complete the programme compiler, this will compile an xml file containing the programmes into a binary file format that the kiln controller will read.

After doing some simple calculations it looks like it will hold around 500 programmes each with 3 segments; also a 32K block will be be set aside for the data logging area.