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Socoder -> C/C++/C#/Other -> Free MBed

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Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:22
waroffice
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
Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:36
Jayenkai
Wouldn't even know where to begin. I am/have always been shit at electronics.
But, Feck, that's awesome!!

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Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 03:47
waroffice
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...
Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 04:56
CodersRule
I looked into Arduino programming quite a bit, then decided I couldn't afford it. I will look into this. Thanks
Wed, 22 Sep 2010, 05:05
waroffice
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
Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 14:50
Mog
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!

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Dev PC: AMD 8150-FX, 16gb Ram, GeForce GTX 680 2gb

Current Project: Pyroxene
Thu, 23 Sep 2010, 15:55
CodersRule
It says they will ship it within a week. Exciting.
Fri, 24 Sep 2010, 02:04
waroffice
me too mog, think i will network-i-fy my steampunk controller.

just because you can !
Tue, 28 Sep 2010, 14:56
dna
It looks like the actual physical unit.

I could use this maybe.


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DNA
Tue, 28 Sep 2010, 14:57
dna
WOW.

They're all gone already.

A popular item it was.

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DNA
Tue, 05 Oct 2010, 09:00
waroffice
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....
Tue, 05 Oct 2010, 15:42
CodersRule
Mine also said 8th of October, IIRC.
I think they said they would ship it on the 8th.
Wed, 06 Oct 2010, 10:59
Mog
Keeping on the lookout for mine-- Someone post if they get one.

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Current Project: Pyroxene
Thu, 07 Oct 2010, 01:51
JL235
Mine also said the 8th October. I hope it comes!
Fri, 08 Oct 2010, 08:41
waroffice
hoping for an mbed shaped envelope on my door mat when i get home in a couple of hours.
Fri, 08 Oct 2010, 13:10
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.
Mon, 11 Oct 2010, 02:17
waroffice
maybe I misread it in all the excitement
Thu, 14 Oct 2010, 20:31
dna
I am Still weeping over not seeing this during the distribution period.


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Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 04:44
CodersRule
Surely when they arrive at peoples' doorsteps they'll be going on eBay for cheap.
Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 13:08
CodersRule
Just got my mbed today. Time to play around with it
Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 13:21
JL235
YAY! They are on their way!
Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 01:55
waroffice
wicked, im working today but im going to whizz home and check my mail
Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 20:31
dna

So you think some will sell the MBeds on EBAY??

All that processing power???

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Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 02:05
waroffice
the odd one maybe but not sure how many they gave away.

cant wait for it to arrive
Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 05:37
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.
Sun, 17 Oct 2010, 15:53
JL235
I certainly won't be putting mine on eBay, but I wish it would arrive soon!
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