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Socoder -> C/C++/C#/Other -> Free MBed |
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| Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:22 | |
waroffice
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Morning I spotted this and some of you guys may be interested. Its a free MBed prototyping board. Its quite cool and worth about £40. www.circuitcellar.com/nxpmbeddesignchallenge/ fill the form in and receive a free geek toy, not bad really  PS: its in the C section because you code in a C like language 
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| Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:36 | |
Jayenkai
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Wouldn't even know where to begin. I am/have always been shit at electronics. But, Feck, that's awesome!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:47 | |
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waroffice
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Its quite easy as it will do most of the hard work for you, i started with a couple of Arduinos and you really cant go wrong. For the arduino, you tell it what pin does what in terms of input or output. pinmode(1,OUTPUT); then check or set the pin to a value, HIGH is 5volts, LOW is 0v. digitalwrite(1,HIGH); this turns things on or var=digitalread(1); this checks if the button you connected is pressed similar thing for the MBed, as mine hasnt arrived yet i dont have any working knowledge but it will be similar. time to revamp my steampunk case...
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| Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 04:56 | |
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CodersRule |
I looked into Arduino programming quite a bit, then decided I couldn't afford it. I will look into this. Thanks
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| Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 05:05 | |
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waroffice
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Because arduino is opensource there are clone versions, freeduino, seeduino etc that are a bit cheaper out there. I shop at coolcomponents.co.uk and are seasonably priced. if anyone needs any help just ask, but there are less than 20 keywords if i remember, something silly like that
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| Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 14:50 | |
Mog
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I use an arduino quite lavishly for a lot of projects. I'm going to look into mBed and see what i could do with it. Registering with this... Going to see about reviving an old project that needed a little more horsepower!
-=-=- I am Busy Mongoose - My Website Dev PC: AMD 8150-FX, 16gb Ram, GeForce GTX 680 2gb Current Project: Pyroxene
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| Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 15:55 | |
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CodersRule |
It says they will ship it within a week. Exciting.
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| Fri, 24 Sep 2010, 02:04 | |
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waroffice
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me too mog, think i will network-i-fy my steampunk controller. just because you can !
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| Tue, 28 Sep 2010, 14:56 | |
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dna |
It looks like the actual physical unit. I could use this maybe. -=-=- DNA |
| Tue, 28 Sep 2010, 14:57 | |
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dna |
WOW. They're all gone already. A popular item it was. -=-=- DNA |
| Tue, 05 Oct 2010, 09:00 | |
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waroffice
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I got an email to say mine is in the second shipment and should be here before 8th October. a friend at work got an email saying his will be shipped in due course and never mentioned a delivery time. Seems they are a popular item, i have some crazy ideas for what i can do with it, stay tuned....
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| Tue, 05 Oct 2010, 15:42 | |
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CodersRule |
Mine also said 8th of October, IIRC. I think they said they would ship it on the 8th.
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| Wed, 06 Oct 2010, 10:59 | |
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Mog
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Keeping on the lookout for mine-- Someone post if they get one.
-=-=- I am Busy Mongoose - My Website Dev PC: AMD 8150-FX, 16gb Ram, GeForce GTX 680 2gb Current Project: Pyroxene
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| Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 01:51 | |
JL235
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Mine also said the 8th October. I hope it comes!
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| Fri, 08 Oct 2010, 08:41 | |
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waroffice
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hoping for an mbed shaped envelope on my door mat when i get home in a couple of hours.
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| Fri, 08 Oct 2010, 13:10 | |
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CodersRule |
Mine said that the mbed people would get a shipment from the supplier by Oct. 8th- not be on my doorstep. I expect mine in four days to a week, or longer if the shipping sucks.
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| Mon, 11 Oct 2010, 02:17 | |
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waroffice
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maybe I misread it in all the excitement
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| Thu, 14 Oct 2010, 20:31 | |
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dna |
I am Still weeping over not seeing this during the distribution period. -=-=- DNA |
| Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 04:44 | |
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CodersRule |
Surely when they arrive at peoples' doorsteps they'll be going on eBay for cheap.
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| Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 13:08 | |
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CodersRule |
Just got my mbed today. Time to play around with it
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| Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 13:21 | |
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JL235
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YAY! They are on their way!
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| Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 01:55 | |
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waroffice
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wicked, im working today but im going to whizz home and check my mail
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| Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 20:31 | |
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dna |
So you think some will sell the MBeds on EBAY?? All that processing power??? -=-=- DNA |
| Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 02:05 | |
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waroffice
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the odd one maybe but not sure how many they gave away. cant wait for it to arrive
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| Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 05:37 | |
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CodersRule |
I went to radioshack and bought a buzzer and a breadboard, and now I've made a fun little song I do see one mbed on eBay, (that is probably from the contest) but they're selling it for $70 as well.
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| Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 15:53 | |
JL235
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I certainly won't be putting mine on eBay, but I wish it would arrive soon!
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