#6 is a small, easy to build, inexpensive, bare-bones computer.
It's the result of over a decade of teaching art students about microcontrollers, interactivity, and electronics.
It is cheap [$25us]. It's open source and uses open source tools to program it.
It uses a very popular chip and tool chain, so many professionals develop and post code for it.
It is easy to build, even for people who have never built an electronic device before.
How do you get started?
- Decide if you really want to do this. We suggest you take up organic farming instead, but if you're tenacious read the
Getting Started section of the site.
- If you are new to microcontrollers and programming, read the learning section.
- If you know your malloc() from your exit(), start setting up
AVR-GCC.
- If you want to build your own #6, check out the
making a board section.
- Check out some of our tutorials and interfacing examples in code.
