One can do a lot of clever things with a $25 of interface hardware, a $5 microcontroller, and some software.
A lot of people make it sound like this sort of thing is really, really complicated, and really expensive. Pfff.
a few interesting projects
microcontroller wiki
- “PyMite? is a flyweight Python interpreter written from scratch to execute on 8-bit microcontrollers.” http://python.org/moin/PyMite
- Atmel AVR wiki http://slacy.com/phpwiki/
- Microcontroller wiki http://mikrocontroller.net/wiki/ (discusses MSP430, ARM, Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC)
- http://developer.berlios.de/wiki/?group_id=564 Wikis for AVR Progger: English, Deutsch, Español
- Atmel AVR wiki (in Japanese) http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~attlee/avr-jp-wiki/wiki.cgi
- Wikipedia:AVR
- Elektronik-Projekt-Wiki http://elektronik-projekt.de/wiki/ (Should this go on the WikiNode ?) discusses AVR, PIC, 8051 microcontrollers, and robotics.
- http://webagora.idd.tamabi.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?cmd=read&page=Hardware/microcontroller/AVR
- the ARM microcontroller Wiki http://open-research.org.uk/ARMuC/ http://www.open-research.org.uk/ARMuC/
- http://developer.berlios.de/wiki/?group_id=727 “Wikis for Atmel USB WLAN”: English, Deutsch, Español
- Ypsilanti Ann Arbor Area Robotics Club http://yaaarc.org/ has a wiki http://www.yaaarc.org/tiki-index.php
- ??? http://wiki.koeln.ccc.de/index.php/Atmel_Mikrocontroller_Kickstart
- WikiBooks:Atmel_AVR
- http://vlsi.olin.edu/vlsiwiki/MikeJesusDanChris has some stuff on EmbeddedWebServer? .
- VLSI:CoolProjectIdeas: now we’re drifting further away from software, towards hardware.
- http://massmind.org/ has lots of Microchip PIC info
- http://wiki.forthfreak.net/ – The Forth programming language is interactive, and requires very little RAM, so it is popular for embedded systems.
- http://wiki.asiaquake.org/openeeg/ – the OpenEEG? project currently uses Atmel microcontrollers for data collection.
- http://www.microchip.com/wiki/ – the official Microchip IC wiki
What is http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://wiki.informatik.hu-berlin.de/avr/index.php/Hauptseite&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAVR%2Bwiki%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG ?
other microcontroller discussion forums (fora ?)
random other web sites that seem to be vaguely relevant
chatter
DavidCary is interested in microcontroller programming, embedded systems, and other “small” microcontroller projects.
For example, I’m thinking of building a flight computer ( http://david.carybros.com/html/schematic.html#flight_computer ). The Taniwha design is 29mm wide and 210 mm long, but I’m thinking about how to make it even smaller so it fits into smaller hobby rockets.
Is there some other wiki that would be better than the SoftwareBazaar for microcontroller programming discussion ?