My day as a lecturer
I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see a fantastic blog post about my old ButtLoad project on someone else’s site, complete with a few neat pictures and a trip report for the construction of a version modified using Nard Awater’s plans to make it USB enabled. I do recommend checking out the post, it’s a fun read. Great to hear ButtLoad’s being useful!
I’ve now modified the USB DFU bootloader included with MyUSB slightly, as I just realised that the different target AVRs are supposed to return different PID (Product ID) values in the USB descriptors so that FLIP can identify the chip model. That and other minor corrections will be in the 1.3.2 release. Thanks to everyone who’s been emailing me with questions, comments and bugs about the project.
Yesterday I thought I’d try something a little different, and see if a lecture style presentation would be a suitable replacement for traditional text tutorials. I whipped up a few slides on the basics of USB (download it here) and posted it to AVRFreaks for comments. The general consensus – which I agree with having tried it out – is that text tutorials are superior for complicated topics, although I believe the narrated lectures would work for getting basic concepts down.
