Charleston SC Linux Users Group
Where: Saturday, July 18, 2009
When: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Trident Technical College Building 100 Room 164
7000 Rivers Avenue
North Charleston, SC
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Applications for the 8-bit microcontroller (uC) include use in portable electronics (e.g. cellular phone, iPod, GPS), robotics, home automation, remote sensing, and many others. This introduction aims to provide a starting point for technical minded individuals with no previous experience with microcontrollers.
However, some experience with basic electronics and the C programming language would be useful. The presentation will begin with a discussion of microcontroller hardware, including the power circuit, microcontroller chip, and serial communications.
The discussion will then turn to microcontroller firmware, how it is developed in Linux using free (GNU) tools, and how it is transferred to the hardware.
Finally, a demonstration program will be used to blink an LED in a working prototype (the "Hello World!" of microcontroller programming), and another to collect temperature measurements using a digital temperature sensor.
Presented by Matt Shotwell
