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¶

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¶

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

More information on breadboards from Wikipedia

Jumper Wires¶

Jumper wires are used in conjunction with the solderless breadboards to wire up circuits. By conventions, black wires are used for groud/negative and red used for power/positive.

2x16 Character Text LCD¶

These displays based on the industry standard "HD44870" LCD controller are commonplace, though each variant usually has its own quirks.

See the Text LCD cookbook page for more details

The specific one we are using for this workshop is from Cool Components. A 1k resistor from Vo to ground is required to set the contrast, and unit it powered from 5v

Here is the product page for this LCD Text LCD

• Digital temperature sensor - See the TMP102 cookbook page
• 64 Ohm speaker
• USB Connector
• 10k Potentiometer
• Push buttons
• LEDs