Or lights, at least
In this post, I’m going to do a walkthrough of creating a very simple Gadgeteer prototype. It will not do a great deal, other than make some lights change when a button is pressed, but it will serve as an introduction to illustrate the Gadgeteer development process.
First, get a telegraph pole…
When I was a kid, I had a book called something like ‘Four thousand projects for inquisitive young minds’. Amongst the ideas for healthy, practical things to amuse children who should know better was a project called ‘Make your own totem pole’ (if you don’t know what a totem pole is, wikipedia will help). Anyway, the instructions began with something like ‘First, get an old telegraph pole…’, at which point the project became rather more difficult than a ten year old child could manage. And that’s before the talk of axes and chainsaws. The point of this rambling is that before you can start playing with the Gadgeteer hardware, there is some software you need to download and install. Rest assured that it’s easier to acquire and set up than a telegraph pole.