[Swansea Hackspace] Ideas for workshops

[Justin Mitchell]

On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 10:46 +0100, Gerrit Niezen wrote:
> There is a nice little power supply module for the MB102 breadboard:
> http://www.thelittlebritishrobotcompany.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=79
> 
> 
> It allows you to power the breadboard rails from a 6.5-12V power plug
> or USB at either 5V or 3.3V. I'm sure you can get them even cheaper
> than what I've listed above.

Yes, £1, as stated in other email, will add it to the list.

> I was wondering if it's at all possible to make the tutorials more
> microcontroller-agnostic? I prefer using Arduino, and others have
> their own favourite micro and development platform.

Well, i would hope that the general lesson of how you connect things,
and the methodology of talking to them would be universal.

Trying to keep the code to C makes it a bit more agnostic, but
ultimately there will be differences in how you access a particular IO
port or feature on different chips.

Off the top of my head we would need to write the code again for each
platform, or a possible bodge would be to write a wrapper library for
PIC that acted the same as the libraries the arduino compiler gives.