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...an Arduino Starter kit!
Yes, a small present, but something to keep me entertained over the Christmas break.
Just spent the evening messing about with a few basics. I'm going to follow as much of the initial projects as I think I need to, and then I'm going to try and build myself either:
(a) a car that avoids walls/obstacles
(b) a car controlled by my mobile phone
Depending on how quickly I can pick it all up, I can either build myself an integrated H-Bridge, or, I can just buy an Arduino H-Bridge Shield which might save me some time, and leave the H-Bridge project for another time.
Currently downloading Atmel Studio as the Arduino IDE, although quite well thought out and nicely polished, is a bit basic as I'm used to a more Visual Studio type IDE with debugging, intelli-sense etc - which is especially useful if you've got to learn some new language (well, not a new language per se, but for functions etc it is useful).
Aahhh looking forward to it - feeling happy - only thing is now that I just need the wife to let me have some spare time...
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Congrats there are several on here, including myself that do AVR development.
A good site if you get stuck and need help is avrfreaks[^].
Good luck
BTW the I'm working on a 4WD car now get the rest of the parts tomorrow and car start breaking out the saws and soldering iron. If I don't come out in a week call for help. 
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Nice! Thanks for the link, I will peruse that when I get a chance!
Oh, and if you don't come out in a week I'll make sure no-one disturbs you, it'll break your concentration 
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Thanks man I appreciate it.
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I'm currently doing a rather involved Arduino project, if you have problems connecting let me know, it took me a while to get it and required editing some driver .inf files.
If you get good enough, you can participate in this: SparkFun AVC 2014[^]
I'd love to participate, but Colorado is a long drive 
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Excellent! Thanks, I will.
Like I say, I'm just starting out, so have got quite a bit of messing around, playing with things to build up my knowledge before the basics become second nature and I can move onto more complicated stuff.
And as for SparkFun....hmmm...maybe a few more years...
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Look at this[^].
An Arduino extension for Visual Studio!
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Nice!
Will have to play with that as well, see which one is best
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote: Currently downloading Atmel Studio as the Arduino IDE, although quite well thought out and nicely polished, is a bit basic as I'm used to a more Visual Studio type IDE with debugging, intelli-sense etc - which is especially useful if you've got to learn some new language (well, not a new language per se, but for functions etc it is useful).
Which version have you got?
Atmel Studio 6 is based on the Visual Studio 2010 shell (we've done quite a bit of work on supporting the innards of it over the past year). It even comes with Visual Assist bundled.
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Yeah, I've downloaded Amtel Studio 6 and also downloaded Viso Micro - thinking that it might be the best IDE to use, but need to find some time to play around with it to explore the various features.
Trying to find some tutorials about the various IDE abilities at the moment.
(Well, I am at work, so doing it on the sly....shhh!)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Enjoy 
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Nice one. The problem is that soon you'll be seeing Arduino-based "improvements" that could be made throughout your house... 
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The computer, it says no.  [check your clicky]
speramus in juniperus
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Clicky fixed 
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Yeah! Much better. What was that other noise about?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I prefer Smash Mouth's version they did for the closing scene in Shrek.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Nice, I've got this going round and round in my head ATM:
Ghosts n' stuff[^]
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Even though it isn't quite my style - Nice one, too 
Veni, vidi, caecus
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My ears! I guess I am just a Bleeder. 
Soren Madsen
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I was trying to download Postgress SQL[^] when I was shown this banner:
Quote:
We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience
By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.
Yes, I Agree
No, I Want to Find Out More
The last line in what I quoted is a link button...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Cute, so by saying no you're saying yes. Gee, where else have I heard that before? 
Marc
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