[Nottingham] Arduino (Hardware bit-twiddling fun)

[Martin]

Folks,

This month's Linuxformat mag (LXF 103, MARCH) covers amongst many things
the Arduino 'open source' hardware and running your own bit-twiddling
code on there.

The Arduino is based on an 8-bit RISC controller and includes USB for
control/setup from a PC.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
http://www.arduino.cc/en/
http://tinker.it/ukstore/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=36
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives


The 'blinking LEDs' example in the LXF article is a good start example.
You can certainly do a lot more with it.

I'm going to be using one or two to replace my central heating
controller and for other things...

Anyone else interested in playing and combining code & hardware?

Arduino Wars even?! NLUG-A splinter group...? ;-)


Let me know, if there's interest I could put in a group order.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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