Dave McGuire wrote: > > I will warn you, please listen...DO NOT expect to pick this up > overnight, or even in a few weeks. There is a lot going on in those > little components, and a lot of stuff to be aware of. I admire your > desire to "dive in" and start doing things, but it's very important to > be aware of one's own capabilities and select your projects > accordingly. START SMALL...get a Basic Stamp and blink an LED, maybe > make a low-frequency sine wave with a D/A converter, *then* move to a > PIC or 8051 with an LCD.
Basic Stamps are fun, and well documented, here is the "Stamps In Class" homepage. http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/edu/index.asp Beware, the Basic Stamp email list is a HIGH volume list. -- Darryl Gibson N2DIY RLU X 182668/379552 “Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.” -- Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
