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I'm interested in microcontroller programming and building. Some people have made cool stuff out of these, like web servers, controllers for robots, and the like. One guy made a potato powered web server...

Does anyone know any place to get info on building and programming microcontroller devices?

Thanks,
512

http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Proje ... 0470009683
or
http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Dummi ... 0764576607

Very viable option..

Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer , hobbyist, or student , this book will turn you on to real-world electronics. It quickly covers the essentials, and then focuses on the how-to instead of theory. It covers:

* Fundamental concepts such as circuits, schematics, voltage, safety, and more
* Tools of the trade, including multimeter's, oscilloscopes, logic probes, and more
* Common electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors, transistors)
* Making circuits using breadboards and printed circuit boards
* Microcontrollers (implementation and programming)

Other Reference links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microcontrollers
http://www.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit%20/

Heh, thanks Bry, I think I'll look into buying that second book.

-512

Hi,

I always find the forums over at http://www.avrfreaks.net very useful - when I get time for my uC projects!

Cheers,
Adam

http://www.z80.info/

I bought a package for five U.S. dollars that had two of them at 4mhz. They are 8 bit a CPU with a 16 bit address bus. They are very easy to connect up with a breadboard. You can even send the block pulses by hand with a switch using a buffer.

It is a _little_ advanced when you could likely buy some sort of micro-controller out of a catalog that does the same, but most likely will come with a adapter to connect to your computer. When I bought it - I only bought the CPU and one chip of EEPROM. You can do with out RAM if all the calculation are done in the registers. The address lines could be used to control motors or lights, or a duplexing circuit... You can build a parallel cable to upload some data to a the EEPROM using counters, and flopping on of the port's bit to advance the counter for the memory chip address when uploading.