Thursday, September 11, 2008

if I had $3,995 (to spare)

I'd be gone to one of these workshops so fast...

"Embedded systems" is a name for putting microprocessors in cars, telephones, toasters, etc. An embedded system has either no operating system or what's called a real-time operating system (RTOS). It's in an eternal loop, waiting for one of its sensors to say hey, attend to me.

The embedded systems counterpart to "hello, world" might be the blink of an LED.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

THAT would be fun, I think. If I had the money, I would do that. Or maybe a few of those, just for fun.
-Brad