**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Feb 12 02:59:58 2015 Feb 12 13:08:15 Hi Feb 12 13:11:03 I want to contribute to project "Library of Arduino-compatible functions for StarterWare".So please guide me,what exactly I need to do to get started ? Feb 12 13:14:17 abhinav95: How do you plan to go about it? Feb 12 13:23:20 I am not sure whether I am going the right way.What I thought is to create user libraries which have function calls like digitalRead, analogWrite etc. to keep environment similar to arduino. Feb 12 13:26:19 abhinav95: What do you think would be the challenges or tough in this task? Feb 12 13:26:52 *tough points Feb 12 13:34:15 As per project description, difficult part I think would be fune-tuning of system to achieve optimal resource management of CPU,peripherals and memory.Also some communication protocols may be difficult.( like in hardware we have UART for serial-parallel communication ) Feb 12 13:40:20 abhinav95: What is your general experience with programming microcontrollers in the past? Feb 12 13:47:51 I have worked with arduino for Robocon 2015 last month.In past,I have worked with atmega16 and created various robots like mobile controlled bot using DTMF decoder,edge avoider,line follower etc. ( with changing few lines of code and little hardware change ).I also coded 16 bit processor in VHDL with basic instructions like mov,add etc. and partially Feb 12 13:47:51 implemented on spartan 3E FPGA Feb 12 13:50:30 abhinav95: Have you heard of the term "bare metal"? Feb 12 13:54:10 "bare metal" ? Yes.Environment where we have no operating system and using infinite loop and interrupt subroutines,we Feb 12 13:54:25 attain some specific purpose. Feb 12 13:55:28 Is StarterWare "bare metal" ? Feb 12 13:59:03 Yes,I guess because it's free development package and provides abstraction layer libraries for TI processor. Feb 12 20:34:58 bbb Feb 12 20:39:12 hi there! **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Feb 13 02:59:58 2015