[Slugnet] Open source hardware anyone?

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On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:28 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote:
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> Hi.  I am wondering if anyone in LUGS is doing anything with open
> source hardware such as the Arduino?  I am keen to teach my sons
> some fun with hardware and interfacing it to a computer (or squeak
> for that matter) and would like to see if there is any interest in getting
> something like that off the ground.
> 
> Arduino's site is: http://arduino.cc/
> 
> Thanks.

Hi. I've not used the arduino, but I'm actively programming using the
avr-libc toolchain and avr-gcc in linux. 

AVaRICE works nicely, as does avrdude. 

The arduino is basically a ATMega168 with a FTDI USB to TTL serial chip,
and a rather pretty board. The real fun comes when you get one of the
many shields.