I'm a coder but newbie in electronics. Played a bit with Arduino and helped a friend with an 8051 programmer once.
What I would like to make is a simple circuit that will reset a counter any time there is a signal on the HD LED pins of the mother board and given a number of seconds passing (60 * X) without a counter reset, short the RST pins for one second. The number of minutes can be configured with 4 dip switches (1 - 16).
I can certainly build this with an Arduino, but that would be overkill, expensive and bulky.
Would someone suggest he most cost effective technology to build this and where to start?
Thanks!
What I would like to make is a simple circuit that will reset a counter any time there is a signal on the HD LED pins of the mother board and given a number of seconds passing (60 * X) without a counter reset, short the RST pins for one second. The number of minutes can be configured with 4 dip switches (1 - 16).
I can certainly build this with an Arduino, but that would be overkill, expensive and bulky.
Would someone suggest he most cost effective technology to build this and where to start?
Thanks!