[General] Arduino Class Interest

[Tycho Clendenny]

I am interested in an Arduino class.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Michael Spiceland <mspiceland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Matt <brimstone at the.narro.ws> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Todd and Karen(Katherine?) dropped off some stuff for us to have
>> last Sunday afternoon and expressed interest in another Arduino
>> class or worksthop. Katherine has an arduino, but doesn't know what
>> to do with it or how to get started. Are other people interested in
>> such a class or workshop?
>>
>> Is anyone interested in leading such an event?
>>
>> We can still get a discount through Adafruit, perhaps we should put
>> together another order to lead up to this class? I'm guessing we'd
>> need a few arduinos and breadboards or the breadboard shields to
>> sell to the participants, but it's really up to whoever wants to
>> lead it.
>>
>> #matt
>
> For anyone interested, I did a class a few years ago on how to use
> Arduino hardware but use normal C for development.  Perhaps some of
> you came.  Teaching that class taught me the value in making things
> easier to use..  From that learning experience, I made libarduino.  It
> is basically just a Makefile, .c file, .h file, and some examples to
> make things easier.  If you are a C programmer and want to use Arduino
> hardware but not the processing language and IDE that comes with
> Arduino, this may be for you.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/libarduino/
>
> To see how easy it is to use, take a look at one of the example below.
>  For instance, in the class we painfully tried doing a demo that
> allowed one to take input from a normal universal IR remote.  All of
> that code boils down to the following example:
>
> Example directory:
> http://code.google.com/p/libarduino/source/browse/trunk/examples/
>
> Universal IR remote example:
> http://code.google.com/p/libarduino/source/browse/trunk/examples/irandserialexample.c
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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