Embedded Programming

In this week assignment, we are going to reprogram echo hello-world board after we did redraw microcontroller PCB circuit. I will use the Arduino as ISP Module since I have a background to how to programme it. It's a great challenge to program PCB circuit for the first time. And I believe it's easy to teach the fundamentals Arduino to anyone as I did with my son who is 8 years old. However, this assignment gets few challenges for who did not work before in the electronics parts and programming.

Challenges I have faced:

• I noticed that the circuit get several miss connections while I did the milling.
• The microcontroller does not get 5V because of one of the pins that energize the circuit is not soldered well. So, I resoldering that again and test the voltage test again, I got 5V!
• The LED was not connected to the pin 6.

Yousef helped me in this assignment since he is having a bachelor degree in communication and control system.What a nice lecturer that Yousef represent and explain the embedded programming . Yousef started explaining the microcontroller and embedded systems as a small computer that takes set of commands and instructions and process them togather and make actions as outputs accordingly. What we are going to use is 8-bit microcontroller. The system will be programmed using Arduino (as ISP) to make a communication link between the computer (code) and my circuit.