back to basics

whiteoxe

Ihave been playing around with electronics and micro controllers for a while. I have never studied much in the basics.

I started out with picaxe had a few success and then got a baic stampwhich i did littlewith.

ThhenIgot a prop and put that togethr on a breadboard with parts I had alrady and I did a few experiments with that usingspin.

I would like to do the whole education paks starting with whats a micro controler but it is all very expensiv.

I think I should stick with the prop and grab a copy of the new book from Amazon ?


Ps. sorry about the typos the keboad on this lousy acer laptop is faulty, I usually plug in a keyboard to it but im siting up in bed at 7am [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Mike Green

All of the Parallax tutorials are freely downloadable and some of the parts for one pack are also used in other packs. There's no reason why you can't just download the various tutorials and work through them using what parts you have on hand and buy other parts you might need from either Parallax or some other vendor like DigiKey, Mouser, or Jameco. You can certainly buy the Prop book from either Amazon or Parallax, but the tutorials are all free for the effort.

There's also a tremendous amount of free educational stuff on electronics and programming on the internet for a very little effort in searching. Start with the Wikipedia.

whiteoxe

Thanks Mike. That is certaintly the way fr me to go forward.

whiteoxe

BTW I have been meaning to do a diploma in electronics and microcontrollers for the last couple of years. Itusually has a mid year intake Canberra Australia and I decidedto go down and doit this year.
Ive done everything from cattle mustering staying out bush for weeks at a time at camps towindow cleaning. I was sure i would pick up ajb down there, but alas, this is the first time they have no mid year intake [noparse]:([/noparse]