I've started this week with some delay since I still needed to finish the assignemet from 2 weeks ago ( electronics design). I've kept working on it during the molding and casting week, but I still didn't get anywhere. Still the same problem: lines crossing over.
For this week we needed that board and since I don't have it, I started searching on programming programs.
I've tried out Python. And I've found a reall good course about it. The only thing is that it takes a lot of time to go through it. The site that I prefer to use for Python. A site that one of my friends uses. I'm not recomending 'Python in a nutshell' for beginners. Not because the book is almost over 700 pages, but because it is 'Python in a nutshell' and not really writen for beginners.
I also wanted to try C++ but a friend talked that out if my head since I'm new to all of this.
Arduino was earsier. We have a book here: getting started with arduino. And that was a great help. Not only because the code to let the LED blink was in it, but also because it was explained very easy. The strange thing is that the code from the website and the code from the book are slightly different what causes errors while verifying it. Arduino also has pre-made codes in the program itself, so if the moment is there and I can start programming the circuitboards, I'll probably use one of these so that I know that there are no mistakes in it.
'Blink' is one of the codes that is in the program itself. 'blinking_led' is one from the website from arduino and 'example_1_blinking_led' comes out of the book.
Next I tried Scratch. It's an easy program but... There is not possibility to add a LED light or light in general. Picoblocks to the other side has light sensors and there you can do more than in Scratch. What I don't know is how Picoblocks will react on the self made circuit boards and if it is even possible.
This weekend will be another weekend working in Eagle to fix the board that I needed for this assignment. But for now I've milled out the original version.
