Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Playing with the Arduino Microcontroller Board

Here are a couple of pictures of my latest toy, the Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller. It's equipped with 16K flash memory, 1K SRAM and 0.5K EEPROM and is currently sitting on my desk, flashing out "hello world" in Morse Code. The processor is an Atmel ATMega168 running at 16MHz.

Now I just need to learn the assembly language so I can implement something useful :-)

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 March 2009 at 08:22

    Ah, assembly language. Takes me back to my misspent youth programming the likes of the IBM 1620 and the PDP-8. :-)

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  2. David12 March 2009 at 00:34

    Assembler? What's wrong with "Processing"? :) Get Tom igoe's book if you haven't already

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  3. Paul King31 December 2011 at 15:29

    Ah, yes! Although, first language I learned was 1620 machine code. Then Fortran. Wasn't till later that I learned 1130 assembler. Arduinos are just as much fun!

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  4. Anonymous25 June 2012 at 03:08

    Cut my teeth on the Z80, lovely processor.

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