Programming the Make Controller

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General

Programming the Make Controller Kit: A practical guide to writing your own programs on the Make Controller.
Add a JTAG Connector for In-Circuit Debugging: In order to do in-circuit debugging on the Make Controller, you'll need to solder an additional component to your board.
Connect Two Make Controllers Wirelessly: Use the XBee modules to communicate between 2 Make Controllers wirelessly.
Create Your Own OSC subsystem: Create a custom OSC interface to your own Make Controller program.
How to connect and use an ultrasonic rangefinder: How to connect and talk to an ultrasonic rangefinder (aka sonar) over the Make Controller’s GPIO connections.
Read info from an RSS feed: How to get your Make Controller to check for updates from an RSS feed.

Build Firmware on Windows: Set up to create your own programs for the Make Controller.
Build Firmware With Eclipse: Use Eclipse (a free development environment) to create programs for the Make Controller Kit.
Build Firmware With XCode: Use Apple's XCode IDE to compile firmware for the Make Controller.
Building mchelper: How to build mchelper (Make Controller Helper) from source.
Debug with OpenOCD: This tutorial will go over how to do in-circuit debugging with OpenOCD via JTAG.
Generate up to date firmware documentation: Sometimes, if you're working from the source code in SVN, the online documentation can be out of date - generate your own if you want.
SVN for firmware projects: Learn how to always get the latest MakingThings code while managing your firmware projects in your own Subversion repository.