[dorkbotpdx-announce] Cooking with the Maple Bacon, Saturday 25AUG12, 1-5 FreeGeek, $40

[Donald Delmar Davis]

Suspect Devices Presents: Cooking with Maple Bacon

This saturday we will introduce our new hardware the Maple Bacon in a workshop focusing on programming.

In this workshop we will introduce the Leaflabs Maple platform using our own varient of the maple mini, the "Maple Bacon". This will be a software only (hardware is included, no soldering required) class and it will focus on programming.

• An introduction to the Maple IDE and a comparison of it to the Arduino and Wiring Platforms.
• An introduction to using libmaple from the command line and integrating it into an ide
• Hardware Hello World.
• Software Hello World (serial).
• A more complicated example which will serve the following discussion
• C(++) in an embedded environment
  • Datatypes
  • Structures,arrays,and enums
  • Scope, constants, and macros
  • C++ and Classes
• Hardware interaction
  • Basic IO, Analog to Digital
  • Serial Ports (usb, usart, spi, twi)
  • External Interrupts
  • Timers
  • PWM

What to Bring:

A laptop and a standard usb a-b cable.

RSVP

You can rsvp for this workshop at http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/workshops/