GR-Sakura Starter Guide If you’ve picked up this pamphlet, you probably like to make electronic projects. Or perhaps you are into gadgets? Are you a budding artist, hobbyist, or fashion designer? We welcome all who love to play around with electronics, no matter where your interests lie. That’s what Gadget Renesas is all about! GR-Sakura (Arduino compatible), produced by Gadget Renesas, is a compact board embedding a tiny but powerful RX600 microcontroller from Renesas Electronics. To learn more about RX600 and the entire RX microcontroller platform, visit: http://www.renesas.eu/products/mpumcu/rx/index.jsp Need some ideas about what to do with GR-Sakura? Connect input and output devices to create your own original electronic gadget. By input devices, we mean sensors that maybe check out the surroundings, detecting things like light, sound or distance. For output devices, such as LED’s, speakers or motors, you could create something with sound and motion. Things for input Light, sound, tilt, switches, odor, temperature, humidity, distance, acceleration, radiation, GSP, etc. Things for output LED, LCD screen, speakers, oscillator, motor, memory card, network, etc.

GR-Sakura Starter Guide Introduction Here’s a quick introduction for testing the GR-Sakura and setting up the Web compiler: First you need to register with My Renesas: http://www.renesas.eu/myrenesas/ Registering on My Renesas will give you access to the online web compiler: http://update.renesas.com/gur/compiler.do?&languageCode=en We also recommend you register for the Renesas Rulz GR-Sakura community forum at: http://renesasrulz.com/app_kits_and_demo_boards/gadget_renesas_user_forum/ This is the place to post any questions you have about GR-Sakura and get support from the community. It also...