On 31 October 2010 03:58, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> a mega chip for $3 to $10, a programmer > for $20, add a proto board and some other small bits Have you discounted the Arduino? That is effectively all of the above, a power supply and USB/Serial conversion all in one unit. Add in the Free Arduino programming environment and libraries and anybody can be flashing LEDs from C-code within about 20 minutes. (I was, with no prior experience of Microcontrollers or C) You just plug in a USB cable, fire up the software (Mac, Linux or PC) and start programming. There is a version using the Mega2560 http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Hardware As an indication of how easy and "friendly" the whole thing is, I followed this tutorial to get going: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/index.html Of course, that might all be _too_ easy :-) -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
