"Free" course from O'Reilly...

[Colin McGregor]

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 (http://creatroninc.com/), near College and
Spadina, for $29.99.

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...

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....

Colin McGregor

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