This is a guest post by Avinash over at Extreme
Electronics. Check out his website to learn more about electronics
and microcontroller programming.
Computer programming is exciting! Isn’t it. It gives you the felling
of power in your hands, power to create and innovate. You can create solution
for many everyday problems. Many programs you create are simple doesn’t
requires much RAMs only few hundred bytes for variables, array etc. And the
input outputs are simple. For example a “calculator” application.
Your computer has resources many times more than what is required to run that
app.
The thing I want to say is that you can easily make a small computer at very
cheap cost (less than Rs 300/$6.00). For any specific purpose and make it run
your programs. You can make any dream device by using variety of hardware like
simple led, seven segment display, switches, sensors to advance Text/graphics
LCD modules, PC interface etc.
What’s more, your single board computer can be installed in any project
like a robot or home security system. You can program robots to do any thing
you like. All these are possible with chips called microcontrollers. If you
are new to them and want to learn more about them check out