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September 2008

Articles in this issue:
Articles:

    * Your First AVR Program C'ing With Cyclon Eyes - Part 2
    * YouToo Can YouTube And Star In Your Very Own Tech Show

Projects:

    * The Talking Skull Kit
    * Use Surace-Mount Devices To Build An FM Transmitter

Columns:

    * Developing Perspectives
    * Expirements With Sound
    * Habitat For Hobbies - Part 2
    * Near Spacecraft Recovery Systems: Part 1
    * Pulse Width Modulation
    * Q&A
    * Roll Your Own FPGA Design
    * Techknowledgey 2008

 

Your First AVR Program C'ing With Cyclon Eyes - Part 2
by Joe Pardue

This workshop is the second of a series that will introduce C programming for the AVR microcontroller based on the book C Programming for Microcontrollers by Joe Pardue available from www.smileymicros.com or Nuts & Volts (www.nutsvolts.com).

Last month, we learned where to get the software and hardware we’ll need, built the AVR Butterfly-based AVR Learning Platform, and tested it with Developer Terminal. This month, we will write and compile our first C program using our AVR Learning Platform. This is not going to be the standard wimpy ‘Hello World!” of yore, but a zippy software/hardware combination where we create some Cylon eyes. These aren’t eyes of the cute, sexy Cylons of the recent Battlestar Galactica, but the oldfashioned ‘70s walking chrome toaster Cylons of the original series.