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January 23, 2006 8:44 AM

Can I upgrade my embedded/C development skills with a project at home?

My role in my organisation is to manage our hardware and embedded software suppliers. My hands-on experience in terms of OS and C development is restricted to college, 10 years ago - I've been developing in HLL's like VB and Javascript since then, which has not stood me in best stead for what I do at the moment. I want to re-familiarise myself at a more practical level with the complexities of embedded development - this isn't something that I have the chance to do on a day-to-day basis at work,so I've been thinking of doing a little bit of hobbying at home.

So, I'm not looking for a full-scale set-top box implementation project complete with hardware and chipset selection, cosmetics, RTOS, driver and middleware development - but I would like to do something that will get me hand-to-hand with some proper coding again, hopefully involving video and preferably in an embedded or linux environment, but I'm not picky. Any ideas?

posted by rootz to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Rockbox or iPodLinux.
posted by orthogonality at 9:21 AM on January 23, 2006

Neuros Audio makes devices that they encourage you to program.
posted by cmonkey at 9:37 AM on January 23, 2006

Has you covered. They've been used in anything from RC Helicopters, to e-book readers.
posted by jackofsaxons at 10:59 AM on January 23, 2006

All great responses, thank you. I'll definitely be following them up.
posted by rootz at 12:41 PM on January 23, 2006

Get yourself a couple of Atmel AVRs and the gcc port.
posted by polyglot at 4:49 AM on January 24, 2006