ed1
The NICTA ed1 board is an educational platform for experimentation with embedded systems programming.
The board is used by high school students during the embedded programming courses that run as part of the NCSS Summer School and the NCSS Challenge here in Australia. These courses are open to all Australian high school students; follow the links to NCSS for more information.
For a couple of years the board was also used as part of the NICTA Creative Embedded Challenge Competiton.
The board is compatible with the popular Arduino Programming Language and contains a variety of input and output devices including:
- 3 axis accelerometer
- Temperature sensor
- Light sensor
- 16k byte EEPROM
- 16 x 2 LCD panel with optional backlight
- Eight red LEDs on a shift register
- Two pushbuttons
- Potentiometer
- Piezo buzzer
- IR receiver and transmitter
The NICTA ed1 board schematic is available here and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike 2.5 Generic License.
