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ESP KTN

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  1. The Kit

The UK organisation "Electronics Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network" - aka [[http://www.electronics-ktn.com|ESP-KTN] are holding a series of one day workshop in the UK to help further the use of embedded electronics and software in industry.

Included in the registration fee for the event is lunch, but more importantly a kit of electronics to keep and take away, that includes an mbed.

This page is intended to cover the kit contents, and give some examples of how it can be used.

The Kit

The kit comprises of the following parts :

mbed Microcontroller

mbed Microcontroller

This ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller will be at the heart of the experiments in this workshop. For more details about the mbed Microcontroller, visit the handbook. There are more details here

Solderless breadboard

Solderless Breadboard

Used to wire circuits quickly and easily, solderless breadboards are an excellent tool for rapid prototyping.

More information on breadboards from Wikipedia

  • Jumper wires
  • 2x16 Character LCD screen - See the Text LCD cookbook page
  • Digital temperature sensor - See the TMP102 cookbook page
  • 64 Ohm speaker
  • USB Connector
  • 10k Potentiometer
  • Push buttons
  • LEDs

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