The beauty of the Arduino, and presumably the reason for it's popularity is the fact that most of the low-level details have been engineered away in a small, tight package. I had working micro-controller circuits working within 1/2 an hour of bringing my first kit home. I don't have the patience or sufficient interest to hack my way through programming a PIC from scratch but Arduino makes it nearly as simple as scripting basic in an IDE.
- michael dykman On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian - I'd be interested in what you find out about the Arduino. I heard a > talk on it at BarCamp NYC a couple of weeks ago. The talk was about its use > in artworks and the complications this raises for art curators with regard > to maintaining the work because they often lack the technical expertise to > work with a micro-controller. There are also issues about maintaining the > integrity of a piece - whether a curator has the right to potentially alter > a work by changing its programming. > > Please keep us informed. > > Thanks, > > Devon > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm currently playing with the Arduino microcontroller much beloved of >> hobbyists and gadgeteers: http://arduino.cc/ >> >> Pleased with what I can make it do so far, which is program it (in C), >> but not communicate through my Mac with its running program. >> >> It has a USB port which supports a simple TTY interface via which >> commands can be sent and data retrieved. >> >> Does anyone have any experience of communicating with it using J? >> >> Ian >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- - michael dykman - [email protected] May the Source be with you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
