[kwlug-disc] (question) What embedded board do you have?

[Joe Wennechuk]

I would be very interested in this.

> From: aklists at mixdown.ca
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:18:25 -0400
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] (question) What embedded board do you have?
> 
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Chris Craig <kwlug.org at ciotog.net> wrote:
> > I've got a couple of Arduinos (one's bricked so I bought another)
> > which mostly my kids sometimes play around with, and a Raspberry Pi
> > that I haven't had any time to do anything with.
> > 
> > Even though I haven't been able to do a small fraction of what I'd
> > like with what I have, I sometimes go here and salivate:
> > http://canada.newark.com/dev-kits?ICID=hp-rr-Devkit
> 
> Years ago I was the “featured guest” at the local Perl Mongers and had a kind of “intro to hardware” meeting. Simple stuff to start really: driving I/O, basics of transistors and mosfets for switching/level translation/etc., rules of thumb for things like pull-ups and LEDs… that kind of thing. 
> 
> Would there be any interest in a revisit of that kind of thing? It can be kept fairly generic so that people using their arduini, ${animal}boards/bones and various dessert boards could benefit from it. I can talk about PWM (for servos, or analog outputs), ADC rules of thumb, driving large loads without letting the magic smoke out, etc….
> 
> I’m getting rusty with my Linux skills but driving electronics doesn’t require anyone to know more than the basics anyway.
> 
> -A.
> 
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