This evening at the Greater Toronto Area Linux user group meeting I was mentioning a course that O'Reilly is running for "free". The course is free, but the equipment isn't, the course outline is below. The equipment focuses around an Arduino Duemilanove, which is available from a few sources in the GTA, among them Creatron (<a href="http://creatroninc.com/">http://creatroninc.com/</a>), near College and Spadina, for $29.99.<br>
<br>For myself, I have signed up for the course. I am curious as to how well the whole distance learning thing will work, with an instructor on the US west coast and me in Toronto. I will need a bit more than just the Arduino Duemilanove, but not much more... At this point I see this as an an interesting experiment in learning...<br>
<br>If anyone else on the UU and/or GTALug lists signs up please let me know as I would like to have some other local people to compare notes with....<br><br>Colin McGregor<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
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Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM<br>Subject: UG News: Processing and Arduino in Tandem--New Course from O'Reilly<br>To: <a href="mailto:colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a><br><br><br>
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