About Me

Hey everyone,

This is my very first post on this blog. I have been meaning to create this blog for a while now, and finally it is live. Before I start talking about the blog though, I would like to say a few words about myself. My name is Anil Ozyalcin, I am a third-year Electrical Engineering student at the Ohio State University. I moved to Columbus, Ohio in September 2010 for college. Before college, I lived with my parents in Ankara, Turkey which is where I am actually from. My dad, too, is an electrical engineer, so you could say that being an electrical engineer is a tradition for the Ozyalcin family.

My encounter of microcontrollers has been a strange one. In November 2011, I bought my first microcontroller not because it had awesome specs, but simply because it was dirt cheap. In fact, at the time I ordered my first microcontroller, I had no idea about what it even was or what it did. You might have guessed already, but the first microcontroller I bought was indeed the $4.30 Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchpad. I bought it because it was very cheap, and it looked awesome with its red circuit board and the "rocket logo." Its looks were more of a criterion to me than its technical specs.

Long story short, this blog is aimed to help newbies out there start building their very own microcontroller projects! I have been there, and I know that it can be intimidating playing with microcontrollers in the beginning. I hope to help you guys understand the basics of programming micrcocontrollers and how to use CCS (Code Composer Studio 5). I deal with the MSP430 Launchpad and the C2000 mainly. So I will have projects and tutorials regarding both in the near future! Stay tuned and comment so I know at least someone is reading this!

-Anil

My desk with my microcontrollers.