Software

Arduino Environment:
This is the software that you use to write the programs for the Arduino. it is also used to upload the programs into the Arduino.

Processing Environment:
This is an open source programming language and environment, used to program images, animation and interactions.

GNU gcc
This is the GNU Compiler Collection, which includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java and Ada.

Wikieducator
This is the website that is run by a global comunity; it is a means to distribute free educational content.

Moodle
This is the platform that the Otago Polytechnic is using instead of Blackboard.

Chip8
This is an emulator created to run old aplications written in the Chip8 programming language.

Fritzing
This is a free application, which can be used to create virtual representations of an arduino circuit layout.

Open Office
This is a free open source suite, which offers a word processor, spreadsheet editor and Presentation creator. It is a lot like Microsoft office, only its free.

PeerWise
This is a website dedicated to enabling students to help themselves and their fellow classmates. PeerWise lets students write their own multi-choice questions and stores them for other students in the same course to use as revision.

Welcome to Tim Gosling's Embedded Systems Blog

Hello and welcome to my Embedded Systems Blog.

My name is Tim Gosling and i am a BIT student at the Otago Polytechnic.

I am an ExCITSS student, and was awarded Best in CITSS in 2009 from Prosouth.