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Got my mbed! :D The retail price for this thing is 70 bucks, and I got mine for free from the NXP design challenge.

Open the box, see what's inside...
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Business card/credit card type thing with this on the front/back: handy, because I'm sure one day I'll be walking around somewhere and wonder "Hey, I wonder where pin 13 is on the mbed I had awhile back" and luckily it will be there conveniently sitting in my wallet.
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I felt a size reference would be useful.
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You probably already have the right cord, but they were nice to provide one for you-
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At first, I thought my USB connector didn't work. I was a bit scared that the problem could have been the mbed, but when I plugged in another connector, it worked fine.
I probably should have followed the instructions on the sheet. If the mbed says it's on, but your computer isn't recognizing it, try to push in the connector a bit more; you'll know it when you've pushed it in enough.

Anyway, here's what the online editor looks like:
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I'm not big on C++, but within just a couple minutes I was able to make a fun little LED blinking application:
[code]
#include "mbed.h"

DigitalOut l1(LED1);
DigitalOut l2(LED2);
DigitalOut l3(LED3);
DigitalOut l4(LED4);

int main() {
    while(1) {
        l1 = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        l1 = 0;
        l2 = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        l2 = 0;
        l3 = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        l3 = 0;
        l4 = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        l4 = 0;
    }
}

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That's just from copying and changing a bit of code from the Hello World example.

Time to go off and play with my new toy. Ciao!


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