The "tour" is probably a loop, but the paint instruction doens't connect the last capital to the first.
Also weird is the choice of capitals for Western Europe. Gibraltar, a capital ? Athens more western than say ljubljana ?
Most of the code is in pretty good shape however some pieces are incomplete. Within 2 weeks we should have enough core functionality written and at that point we are going to release parts of the code to the general community.
But I agree that there is not a lot available to play with yet.
I second the AVR. Great docs, good community. The chips are really cheap, and most of them have PDIP versions, which means that you can just plug them into a breadboard or solder them onto a stripboard. You need no extra components to make them run from a 5V supply (like USB), and they can run at up to 16MHz with an external oscillator (even 20MHz for some). You can program them with the STK500 USB programmer which costs about 20 bucks iirc, and which is supported by the free avrdude software.
As an example, the ATTiny26 is about 3 dollars, and powerful enough to build a MIDI controller with 6 analog inputs that communicates through software USB even though it has only 128 bytes of RAM and 2kB of flash memory.
An Arduino might be even simpler to use, but I have no experience with those. Have fun !
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The "tour" is probably a loop, but the paint instruction doens't connect the last capital to the first. Also weird is the choice of capitals for Western Europe. Gibraltar, a capital ? Athens more western than say ljubljana ?
Most of the code is in pretty good shape however some pieces are incomplete. Within 2 weeks we should have enough core functionality written and at that point we are going to release parts of the code to the general community.
But I agree that there is not a lot available to play with yet.
+1, good troll
Well, he did write "Other wise", didn't he ?
I second the AVR. Great docs, good community. The chips are really cheap, and most of them have PDIP versions, which means that you can just plug them into a breadboard or solder them onto a stripboard. You need no extra components to make them run from a 5V supply (like USB), and they can run at up to 16MHz with an external oscillator (even 20MHz for some). You can program them with the STK500 USB programmer which costs about 20 bucks iirc, and which is supported by the free avrdude software.
As an example, the ATTiny26 is about 3 dollars, and powerful enough to build a MIDI controller with 6 analog inputs that communicates through software USB even though it has only 128 bytes of RAM and 2kB of flash memory.
An Arduino might be even simpler to use, but I have no experience with those. Have fun !