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New microcontroller book uses mbed!

For anyone who might be a beginner to C and Microcontrollers, Elektor have just published a book called "ARM Microcontrollers (part 1) - 35 projects for beginners"...

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Why use an NXP LPC1768 ARM MCU?

If you ever need to explain to someone why they should be using an NXP LPC1768 ARM Cortex MCU in their next product, as found on mbed, just send them this video!...

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Smile and Santa Smiles With You!

I just got a message about another video, now added to our channel; i'm guessing this one was built over christmas!...

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mbed has a YouTube channel!

We've setup a YouTube channel to collect together all the mbed videos you're posting! Here are a few to give you a taster of what some of you are up to...

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Site update: bugfixes, wiki text update to forum and notebook

Today we have finally released the version of the site which has been in public beta for some time now. This is a relatively minor update - the main user visible changes are bugfixes and a move away from the TinyMCE editor to our integrated wiki engine.

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Next site beta now available!

The next version of the mbed website is now available for beta testing. Here is what we've added...

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What have you been cooking?

The mbed website has a community-contributed area called the "Cookbook", which is becoming a bit like wikipedia for electronic components. Each page collects together information for a component you might want to hook up to mbed, with a library and wiring information needed to get you up and running in a flash.

Here is a summary of a few things you have been cooking up recently...

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Hands-on mbed workshop at Elektor Live!

What do you get when you put 75 engineers and boxes of all sorts of electronic components together in a concrete UFO?

You get the biggest mbed hands-on workshop we've ever attempted! Here are the details...

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mbed Robot Racing - The results

After 2 days of highly competitive racing at ARM Tech Con 2010. The results are ready to be announced.

In true award ceremony style, there are few people to thank. Firstly, Ioannis Kedros, for putting together a great PCB design so quickly, then for hand manufacturing the required number of units to take to Tech Con. Secondly, the guys from Pololu who came along to Tech Con and helped out enormously. Thanks!

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mbed Microcontrollers and LabView!

I was invited to talk at the recent NI Days conference in London about the experiments we've been doing around hooking mbed up to LabView. The talk is a backgrounder and some basic demos of how to get them talking, and I was joined by Ian Bell from NI to show how you can even target microcontrollers directly from LabView. The talk was videoed, so here it is for anyone interested in LabView and mbed working together...

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