Tinker it now!

These days you will find Massimo Banzi, founder of tinker.it in Amsterdam teaching a Bluetooth Arduino Workshop @ Mediamatic from March 12-14th. Go say hi!

As many AVR users might know, the AVR microprocessors we’re using for Arduino prototyping or just as bare µC’s to play with, have a limited amount of RAM memory.
This ranges between 512 Bytes to 4 KBytes for the more advanced ATmega128.
Arduino, at present time, has its core in an ATmega168, which has 1 KB SRAM memory for code execution.

While I was reading through the C++ code of the Nokia LCD library for AVR, I found out that a modifier was used when defining the Arrays containing LCD fonts and Bitmaps: PROGMEM.
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Found out through Ubi that k10k, the designer’s lunchbox linked to us! Rock on!