This is not directly Amiga related but I plan to set some very low dev bars and to use it with an Amiga.
I've seen kits at Radio Shack and other places, like the Makers Faire, but never invested in one. Many of these kits interface with your PC (usually Windows, sometimes Linux, rarely MacOS) via USB or sometimes serial. They often have pads or pins that can be used to exchange data over and some basic hardware/software stack (either a BASIC or something FPGA related).
I've never done any hardware development, period. I'd like to pick up one of these kits and learn something with them. Maybe write a program on the Amiga that can exchange basic messaging over a serial port or parallel port. Or something basic like that.
Even a "hello device" string from the Amiga with a "hello Amiga" response. Or even more simply, press a button on the Amiga and have a led turn on on the kit.
If I can achieve this level of communication, then I am quite certain I can move on to bigger things. My question to you is, have any of you worked with any of these kits before? Is this the wrong path to go down? Should I be doing something else instead?
Thoughts? Hints? Websites?
Thanks
