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Thats still quite possible. Buy yourself an arduino board and the chip manual and you can know just about everything about it. Some slightly more sophisticated
by foobar33333 6y ago
Thats still quite possible. Buy yourself an arduino board and the chip manual and you can know just about everything about it. Some slightly more sophisticated boards can even do video output and run modern programming languages while still not having an OS or complex firmware.
If anything its even easier now because its dirt cheap and there are hundreds of hours of tutorials available for free. And the arduino tools have removed a lot of the pointless complexity like telling your compiler what clock speed and revision your chip is.
- rbanffy 6y ago> Buy yourself an arduino board and Not quite. You are programming the Arduino, but you are using a vastly more complicated computer to do it. There is a lot of beauty in the simplicity of having a machine simpler than an Arduino and be able to, using nothing but it, get an interesting result.
- foobar33333 6y agoI'm not sure it matters really other than nostalgia value. Its doubtfully more educational. And in any case, there are hobby kits where you can build a basic computer and program itself using the computer. Its all still around, only cheaper and more available. Its just not the _only_ option we have now.