Part 1
Is arrived.
WOW!
Nice, small, very intuitive.
The box contains the mbed card, usb cable, two easy to read color-coded pin references one in a business-card format and one in credit-card format, one round mbed sticker and a setup guide sheet.
Connected via USB It brings up a 2MB FAT-FS storage (USBSTOR\Diskmbed____Microcontroller_1.0_) loaded with a MBED.htm file (<!-- mbed Microcontroller Website and Authentication Shortcut --><html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://mbed.org/start?auth= ............).
Double click on that and it connects to mbed.org sending them the auth code, firmware version and configuration. After this you need to register an mbed account.
Once registered you can access
- the online compiler - fast and
- the blog, the forum
- the mbed handbook - programming references, hardware description, libraries
- the cookbook - user-contributed libraries and resources
Board description:
2x20pin board with mini-USB, reset button, power/status led, 4 leds. All 5 leds are blue and strong enough to distract your attention.
Programming the mbed:
Simply copy the .bin file compiled with the online compiler in the FAT storage partition and hit the reset button. It loads and executes the program stored in the FAT partiton.
When you delete it from FAT storage and hit reset again the board returns to the first state. Shure this means that the program can't exceed that 2MB limit, but you can live with this ;-)
As by now all what I did was to play with leds thru DigitalOut ( Class: DigitalOut - A digital output, used for setting the state of a pin).
All classes are available via http/svn and this i another great thing.
All functions are well commented.
Soon Part 2.
Thanks to Element-14.
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