Setbacks

You would think in this day and age setting up a website wouldn't be that big an issue.

Well, Murphy's law took effect in my first attempt to set up www.landonenterprises.com as my business website to help launch my trainer board. I didn't have much there other than a couple pages saying little more than "coming soon,"  but apparently I had chosen the wrong hosting plan and long story short they had to delete what little I had done in  order to get me on the 'right' plan (of course, more expensive, but not enough to lose sleep over).

And of course that get's straightened out right before I start having some health issues that kept me from updating it.

Anyway, I have a web-site launching real soon (hopefully this weekend). I am also going to have dedicated business feeds for updates on Google +, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Possibly even for this blog. Soon. As they say in the south. "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise."

March news!

Played around a bit with connecting my board to a Raspberry Pi. It works quite well, as expected. Python is a really easy to learn programming language (reminds me a lot of programming on my old Commodore64!). I should have no trouble writing a book on learning to program that when the time comes.

The Arduino programming book is about 95% written! Have some text written for each chapter (11 in all), then there is just some editing, some sample programs, some diagrams, maybe a few more screen-shots, and one chapter needs a re-write thanks to the Arduino folks releasing a new version of the IDE since I wrote the chapter on that!

So the time has come to start spreading the word. Tell your friends and fellow microcontroller enthusiasts, STEM educators, science teachers and everyone else who may have the slightest interest in this board.

I'm going to try to put together a short promotional video to put on YouTube sometime in the next week, as soon as I can find some time (just hope it does not go viral for the wrong reasons!). It won't be anything fancy just a bit about the board and how useful it can be as a teaching aide and as a programmer aid.

You can also follow this project now on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MicroTrainer. I can add pictures easier there and short updates that do not require writing out a full blog post.