Geekery

Only about six months after buying it, I've finally started playing around with my Arduino, and it's a cute little fella:

In a sense, programming for a microcontroller is no different from doing so for an all-singing, all-dancing modern computer -- apart from the target being so much less sophisticated. But there's something charmingly tactile about being able to interface so directly -- and clunkily -- to the outside world, with only a few lines of code and some bodged-together components. It has the feel of something much more physical than the coddled environments I'm more used to.

Of course, all I've done so far is blink a few lights and read from the crudest sensors, but it's only been an hour or two. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with some fun things to do with it. Suggestions on a postcard, please...
Posted by matt at July 16, 2008 10:59 PM