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Suggest a project for me

awinning

Hi,

 

I've really enjoyed being on element14, and it has reawakened my desire to actually play around with electronics. I think the main spur has been reading about the Arduino like boards coming onto the market now. At the moment we have three Multicomp Arduino clone boards here, the Amicus board, which is an Arduino clone with a PIC controller here, and mbed. I think personally I'd like to try the PIC programming, but if anyone thinks the AVR or mbed is easier to get into, I'm open to convincing.

 

About me,

I graduated in 1996 with a BSc in Electronic Systems. Since then I have worked in a number of publications writing about electronics, but not practising. My favourite subjects were digital design and C programming. Currently I'm working on this, which hopefully you are all familiar with.

 

About the project,

I'm looking for something to ease me back into electronics. I want to use either one of the Arduino clone boards or an mbed. I'd hopefully be designing a shield/board for the chosen dev kit using EAGLE Freemium. The project should be fairly cheap and at an intermediate level, I'd like to stretch myself a bit while learning (and hopefully you are all going to help me through image).

 

Any and all suggestions welcome!

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  • Hi Alistair,

     

    Very nice to hear of your reawakenings image .

     

    Ally, if you are familiar to PIC or AVR but not to ARM then i would recommend you MBED. So, in my opinion, unknown fields give more courage and passion to learn new things. Or, just an idea, you can choose the THREE with one project. I mean something like Parallel Learning image If something goes wrong in the FIRST but not in the OTHERS, then you can easily locate where the problem is.

     

    Firat

  • in reply to firatkocak

    Thanks Firat,

     

    I agree with you about unknown fields, but its been so long since I have actually programmed a micro I think they will all be challenges! I think the last micro I used was a 68020 in my final year project. I think for a follow up project I would like to build a shield for both the Multicomp and Amicus boards and make sure they both work...I don't think the hardware is a problem as both boards are completely compatible

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  • in reply to firatkocak

    Thanks Firat,

     

    I agree with you about unknown fields, but its been so long since I have actually programmed a micro I think they will all be challenges! I think the last micro I used was a 68020 in my final year project. I think for a follow up project I would like to build a shield for both the Multicomp and Amicus boards and make sure they both work...I don't think the hardware is a problem as both boards are completely compatible

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