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.