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Hello,
Welcome to my tutorial.
My experience is that you learn only by doing. You
have to get burnt by a soldering iron in order to learn electronics.
You have to stay awake until very late to find this silly bug in
your code, most likely next morning, to be a programmer. The journey
is nice but, not always.
I‘ll be honest with you, I do not possess huge
amounts of experience, I am in the same train with you. But I have
understood that professors and books can only give you a smell of
the real thing. In this broad field the magic word is “feedback”.
You get feedback by your mistakes, you try and you conclude, hopefully.
Start now, make new mistakes.
Under this feeling I have found very few tutorials
that satisfied me. Most do not cut down the generalities, they overdo
it with the “big picture” or they just do not fit in
my purposes. You see, many pages have to be filled in for a book
or too many things have to be written to give the illusion of completeness.
Knowledge can never be complete, there are no “bibles”,
you collect bits and pieces, experiences, that turn out to be skills.
Well, judging without getting my hands dirty is too easy,
so here follows my attempt. However, note that this tutorial was written
with the following principles in mind.
You
know very few things related to microcontrollers, electronics and programming.
So in case you know what you are reading or you are getting bored by what
you are reading, just press the next button.
You don’t want to learn everything in this evening and you cannot,
so I ‘ll give you the absolute minimum to make this thing work.
In case you want to learn everything, spend more evenings, do some googling,
ask at the forums and why not buy a descent book or best order a kit with
an AVR micro on it and follow a tutorial, hmm ….
As
I said, we are going to focus on making this board work. If you cannot
install the tools, or connect the programmer ... you will not find great
help here.
Ahh,
last thing, if you rushed things up and plugged it in, you will find that
it is not working. If you just wanted a working circuit, to show it off
to your mum to be proud of you, sorry you may send it back demanding refund.
I
hope that you will find great excitement by turning on these LEDs, by
measuring temperature … by having a working circuit, by understanding
these things. I’ ll say no more, lets have a look at what you have
in front of you.
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