Hey everyone, haven't posted in a while (first time posting in THIS forum actually) but I've been making a lot of progress and started working with programmable micro-controllers (mostly the Arduino so far). I had a lot of fun the last 2 years, working with various IC's and discrete components, and let me just say how much easier life has become since learning how to work with micro-controllers (build time is cut by nearly 60%).
ANYWAY, as I dwell deeper into this stuff, I've begun communicating with my Arduino via serial communication and although I can do some basic programs, I'm not anywhere near fluent. Basically, I can control a few output pins and make them turn on/off and LED (for example). I've worked with a program written by earthshinedesign that allows me to dial in any color (with an RGB LED), however, this is not MY program, and I'd like to get to the point where I CAN write this type of sketch on my own. So if anyone has any good references where I could learn how to become very fluent with Serial Communication (just with the Arduino for now), I'd really appreciate it. I learned a bit from some youtube videos, but I was wondering if there was a book I could get, like Practical Arduino or something along those lines that would help me out in the long-term.
Thanks to anyone that can point me in the right direction. -Joe
ANYWAY, as I dwell deeper into this stuff, I've begun communicating with my Arduino via serial communication and although I can do some basic programs, I'm not anywhere near fluent. Basically, I can control a few output pins and make them turn on/off and LED (for example). I've worked with a program written by earthshinedesign that allows me to dial in any color (with an RGB LED), however, this is not MY program, and I'd like to get to the point where I CAN write this type of sketch on my own. So if anyone has any good references where I could learn how to become very fluent with Serial Communication (just with the Arduino for now), I'd really appreciate it. I learned a bit from some youtube videos, but I was wondering if there was a book I could get, like Practical Arduino or something along those lines that would help me out in the long-term.
Thanks to anyone that can point me in the right direction. -Joe