I am interested in and am enjoying working with micro-controllers. My thought with this blog is to create a diary, in essence, of what I have done and am doing. This will largely serve my own purposes for documenting what I have learned. It will also be a place I can refer friends or others to when discussing something I have done. If anyone else finds it interesting, that's great too. I have to warn you... I am no expert. Some of the stuff I have done may be dumb and some conclusions I have come to may be wrong. I tend to work by finding an example of something I am interested in and then modifying it for my own purposes or curiosity. That means I am building on the efforts of others. It also means I don't always understand fully something I have done. But, learning is a process. Each time I struggle with something I learn a little more.
I first got interested in micro-controllers around 10 years ago. I bought a Basic Stamp education kit from Peter H. Anderson (www.phanderson.com). I recommend Peter Anderson's stuff. Lots of good educational stuff at good prices. Lots of good info at his site. I messed with this stuff for a good while but got interested in something else (koi ponds, I think) and put it back in the closet.
Recently my interest was rejuvenated by a chance encounter with a website, www.nerdkits.com. I wish I could remember what I was doing when I stumbled this site. Anyway, I ordered up a nerd kit and my interest has taken off again. I have since bought an Arduino Duemilanove. And I dug out my old Basic Stamp.
I have various thoughts about making something useful out of all this stuff. For now I am content just to figure stuff out and get it working. That is the process I am talking about here.
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