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=== Week 6 - Microcontrollers, Digital Input/Output ===
* Homework for next week: Read pages 1-42 of "Getting Started With Arduino" by Massimo Banzi. This introduces the Arduino microcontroller, a brief bit of what it does, and also describes your first basic activity with the Arduino, writing and uploading the basic LED blinking program.
** NOTE: I will use "Arduino" and "Freeduino" interchangeably: they are nearly identical. The official Arduino is manufactured by one particular group in Italy, the Freeduino is one of many clones of the Arduino made by a company here in the US. Both use the same programming environment and have the same capabilities, so we don't really have to worry about the distinction.