While walking down the street, I spotted a...]]> Mon, 05 May 2014 01:45:53 +0000 Lonnie Honeycutt https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/529.php I've begun producing a new series of video tutorials for the hobbyist new to the Arduino or microcontrollers in general.  My videos are very pragmatic - I prefer to answer the question "what is the quickest, simplest and most affordable way to accomplish this?".  The videos are meant to be a quick source of "how to" knowledge for the hobbyist that is using an LCD display, ultrasonic...]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2013 03:20:46 +0000 Lonnie Honeycutt https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/525.php

I started tinkering with microcontroller a couple of years ago with an Arduino Uno.  I had a little experience with C, so programming in the Arduino environment has been relatively easy and straightforward for me.  My code is not necessarily elegant or efficient, but I can usually figure out how to make an Arduino do what I want it to do eventually.  A lot...]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:42:44 +0000 Lonnie Honeycutt https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/521.php I was very excited to see that there will be an Embedded Systems class available for free at https://www.edx.org/course/utaustin/ut-6-01x/embedded-systems-shape-world/1172

It's free to sign up and take the online class at the EdX website.

More exciting is that the class is based on a TI Launchpad Tiva microcontroller development board.  The Tiva Launchpad features an 80-MHz ARM...]]> Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:16:35 +0000 Lonnie Honeycutt https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/510.php Arduino robotics is a series of article chronicling my first autonomous robot build, Clusterbot.  This build is meant to be affordable, relatively easy and instructive.  The total cost of the build is around $50.