Well, I’ve moved on from LEDs, and built a little robot. It’s powered by a 16MHz Atmel chip, and currently you have to hard code instructions into it, but I’m hoping to add wireless control soon.

Robot v0.1 Video

I decided to learn how to program microcontrollers. SparkFun has some really good tutorials <http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorials.php>. So far nothing too exciting, but I managed to compile and load the code onto the microcontroller and make a blinking LED =P

Blinking LED Video (sorry it’s not embedded, that turned out to be  non-trivial on WordPress. Anyone know a good plugin for embedding?)

Well, WordPress is super easy to setup on Lunarpages. Now I just need a better theme…