Jack Ganssle is an embedded guru and a great writer, check out everything he's written - books and online. Start here: http://www.ganssle.com/startinges.htm ht

Jack Ganssle is an embedded guru and a great writer, check out everything he's written - books and online. Start here: http://www.ganssle.com/startinges.htm http://www.ganssle.com/startinges.htm ("How to become an embedded geek") Get yourself a simple all-in-one hardware/firmware environment, like the one my company (Silicon Labs) makes: Look for the "MCUniversity Kit", it's $55, here: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/MCUniversity.aspx http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/MCUniversity.aspx Or check out http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-with-linux/ http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-... for info about Launchpad, a cheaper, similar solution from TI. I've actually used Silicon Labs' MCU University kit, and I highly recommend it. I don't get any money directly from it, but Silicon Labs does pay my salary.