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How to start embedded progrmming
RoGeorge:
The problem with Arduino is that, in the long run, it can be a major drawback.
It's good to start, especially if you want just to play with it without any professional ambitions, because there are a lot of examples and demos, but otherwise Arduino is a mess.
rjp:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on September 22, 2018, 02:58:42 am ---The problem with Arduino is that, in the long run, it can be a major drawback.
It's good to start, especially if you want just to play with it without any professional ambitions, because there are a lot of examples and demos, but otherwise Arduino is a mess.
--- End quote ---
this is only the case if you assume someone is incapable of learning once the initial hump is overcome, which in my experience is not true.
if you dont have experts around you, learning how to code whilst learning electronics circuits whilst setting up your first circuit on barely documented ARM breakout and getting all the toolchain and headers right.. is also a mess :)
rstofer:
With the Arduino you have a 100% chance of having a blinking LED in less than an hour from the time you start downloading the IDE. It's probably closer to 10 minutes.
1) Install IDE and launch
2) Click File->Examples->Basics->Blink to open an example file
3) Click Tools->Board and select board type (UNO is a good board for beginners)
4) Click Sketch->Upload (Ctrl-U) to compile and upload the program
5) Watch the blinking light.
It's a start...
Nearly every new embedded system starts with a blinking LED. An enormous amount of stuff must be correct for this to actually work.
And then it's off to the races!
Mattjd:
--- Quote from: rstofer on September 22, 2018, 02:45:38 pm ---With the Arduino you have a 100% chance of having a blinking LED in less than an hour from the time you start downloading the IDE. It's probably closer to 10 minutes.
1) Install IDE and launch
2) Click File->Examples->Basics->Blink to open an example file
3) Click Tools->Board and select board type (UNO is a good board for beginners)
4) Click Sketch->Upload (Ctrl-U) to compile and upload the program
5) Watch the blinking light.
It's a start...
Nearly every new embedded system starts with a blinking LED. An enormous amount of stuff must be correct for this to actually work.
And then it's off to the races!
--- End quote ---
you can literally do the same thing on an MPS430. You download code composer studio, which will probably take longer than 10 minutes, but once you get it up and running, you create a project you the option of it being empty, LED Blink, or Hello World , or something else which i forget.
Mattjd:
The TI resource explorer where you can find examples for any and all peripherals on a board
http://dev.ti.com/tirex/#/
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