DOSUG Meeting

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John Lowe presents Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/) (open-source electronics prototyping platform)

Over the past few years a number of open source friendly embedded platforms have become very popular and received some press, the Arduino and Raspberry-Pi being the most popular examples. This evening we'll compare the capabilities of a number of these platforms and evaluate how to choose one of these platforms for a project. We will then discuss some basic electronics concepts (and yes, Ohm's law will be mentioned) needed to interface one of these platforms to the "real world", how to prototype a project and other things a "maker" would consider when working with embedded platforms. We'll wrap up by going over some of the tools used for testing and debugging both the software and hardware for a project, and maybe do a little live coding to see the tools (both HW and SW) in action.