The mbed challenge - 8051 to ARM!
This is very cool! Jim Carver at Avnet has taken his mbed and made a video showing it off. It is a really nice intro to mbed itself, but the coolest part is what he is doing with it...
As he calls it, "the mbed challenge"; take an old 8051 MCU based board and try and bypass the chip to wire in the mbed instead. And then import the 8051 C code and try an port it across to ARM. Watch the video to see the results:
My favourite parts are the bits where he is looking at what he needs to change and comparing the architectures, showing how nice it is to code with a modern MCU!
And great to see mbed letting him experiment so easily; just what it was designed for - great work Jim!
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