Parallel Programming For the Arduino

blackbearnh writes "As more non-traditional programmers start playing around with embedded platforms like the Arduino, the limitations and complications of interrupt-driven event handling can become an annoying barrier to entry. Now a group of academics have ported the parallel-processing language Occam to the Arduino. In an interview on O'Reilly Answers, Matt Jadud of Allegheny College describes how Occam helps artists using the Arduino in their installations, and how the advent of low-cost computing platforms is changing the educational experience for proto-makers in school. 'Basically, an artist or a tinkerer or a hacker has a goal. They don't really care about learning Occam. They don't care about how this language is different from C. They just want to make a cat door that keeps their cat out when the cat comes back with a mouse. Or they want to make some kind of installation piece. Trying to focus as much on the user and the possible goals they might have is what's motivating our work right now.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F06%2F16%2F1635208%2FParallel-Programming-For-the-Arduino" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Parallel+Programming+For+the+Arduino%3 A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbIlgMu" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/16/1635208/Parallel-Programming-For-the-Arduino?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4N-CMoRiEWdPCFHg7Jyz77ikaaY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4N-CMoRiEWdPCFHg7Jyz77ikaaY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4N-CMoRiEWdPCFHg7Jyz77ikaaY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4N-CMoRiEWdPCFHg7Jyz77ikaaY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/NuprdaISPYw" height="1" width="1"/

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