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if you make the microcontroller an Atmel ATmega328 (or other 
appropriate), you can use the  Arduino IDE to program and take advantage 
of all those libraries (like PWM).

On 10/09/2012 02:21 PM, Pavel wrote:
> I would be interested in building a couple of these.
>
> A feature I'd like to see is a merging of certain function generator
> abilities. Often I need pulsed or PWM'd power, so it would be great to have
> that built in.
>
> What sort of data can we send over USB? It would be interesting to have the
> ability to log things like current draw over time, etc.
>