Kanbak-uino Arduino-based KENBAK-1 Recreation

On 09/29/2011 11:54 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote: Cool, even. ;) *poke* adrino funny been seen that stuff allot latly speacialy at my local hacker Yes, Arduinos are pretty neat. They're a good way to get started in embedded development, I think. The only pitfall is "reaching escape velocity" from the handholding that the Arduino platform gives you, to being able to do real designs. But for many people, who just want to solve a quick problem or build a quick widget rather than start a career in embedded development, they can be very handy. One thing that people tend not to realize is that one need not use the Arduino software platform on Arduino hardware. The hardware is a pretty generic hookup of an AVR microcontroller, just with a standardized form-factor and pinout for stackable mezzanine modules. I've programmed them (just this morning in fact) to the bare metal with a standard GCC-based AVR cross-compilation environment. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL