Hi Mark, I'm interested - final answer will depend on the date. For your planning purposes I'll definitely get the kit though.
Cheers, J.J. On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:22 -0700, Mark Carlson wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm looking for responses to see who is interested in attending a > workshop focused on microcontrollers. > > I didn't think I would be starting on the microcontroller workshop > until the SBC workshop was done, but it looks like I found a winner > for the hardware for this one already, so I might as well get things > started. > > Hardware: > AVR Butterfly - http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3146 > More info at http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc4271.pdf > > The cost for the hardware so far is $22.50 + shipping + tax (right > now, anyway) but you will need a serial port (usb->serial is fine) and > a computer (might need to be either Linux or Windows, not sure yet,) > (unless we can get booked into a computer lab to do the workshop.) > > Minimal programming experience is required. You should know how > compiling code works, and not balk at a language you haven't seen > before (might end up doing some ASM, otherwise it will be C.) > > Workshop goal: > Introduction to microcontrollers. Show how the hardware is organized, > and how to write software to interact with the hardware. > > Workshop date and time: > Not decided yet. Probably on a weekend in January or February. More > details as the date gets closer. > > List of features at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_Butterfly > > - Show: > --- how microcontrollers work > --- what kind of things they can do (DIO/ADC/etc.) > --- much of the contents of the users guide > > - Do: > --- minimal changes to the existing code > --- maybe write new code? ideas? > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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