Revision3’s Systm is one of my favorite WebTV sites!
Their talks are always thought-provoking.

In this episode, they turned on a microcontroller-based project aimed at signal, via a servo motor, incoming mail on a Gmail account.

It’s good starting point for microcontroller beginners, servos integration with open source languages (Python in this case) and a lot more.

As their own forum users abundantly highlighted though, the video talk falls short when it comes to talk about software writing.
Instead, there’s a long survey of different microcontrollers: Parallax Stamp (I’ve used a Basic Stamp back in 1999 and really enjoyed it), Arduino microcontrollers (a proudly italian product) and a few more just like the Kosmos Microcontroller Kit.

Anyway, that said it’s a great tutorial!

Go to Revision3’s Web Page.

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