geodave 9 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Greeting! I am a Geographer by trade with a background in remote sensing. I originally discovered electronics and microcontrollers when trying to find an economical way to automatically control the temperature of my BBQ smoker. I stumbled upon the Arduino based "Linkmeter" PID Smoker controller project (Google it), built a couple of those, and fell in love with the idea of designing and building my own electronics. It has been a long and slow learning process but forums like this have really made all the difference. I am hoping I can combine all of the knowledge I have collected over the past couple years to build a solar powered wireless garden monitoring and watering control system based on the MSP430G2553 and Raspberry Pi. Perhaps another post of that soon... I stumbled upon the MSP430 line of microcontrollers about three months ago and I am in love. I stalled out on the Arduino platform because I kept running into coding issues that I had difficulty troubleshooting. I like the Launchpad platform much better than the Arduino because of the debugging capabilities of CCS. I am learning about 10 times faster with the debugger. Thanks for all the help in advance! Rickta59 and SirPatrick 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SirPatrick 35 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Welcome! Looking forward to see what kind of projets you can think up Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobG 1,892 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Welcome to the forum Dave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Welcome! Spirilis' Charcoal Grill / Smoker Monitor may be of interest to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roadrunner84 466 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Hi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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