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
