Keeping tabs on the ‘maker’ community, Arduino as a development platform is certainly very popular.
I initially dismissed it when I first started learning about microcontrollers as I was learning on the Atmel ATmega8, which the Arduinos of the time were based around, and figured that I wanted to learn at a ‘pure’ level and not be confused by an additional abstraction layer.
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Monthly Archive for June, 2009
A long time ago, when I discovered the 4D Systems line of OLED serial-controlled displays I was very impressed – an awesome screen with an easy to understand interface was just what I wanted to play with.
Now that I’ve had one for a while – the uOLED-160-GMD1 – I find that I’m stuck in a swamp of indecision about how to try and display things on the screen. Options and choices turned out to be a real problem for me. I will still use it for something and the fact that I’ve switched to Arduino vs. just plain C code on an ATmega may make things more straightforward.
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