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When I took an assembler course, we used a NIOS II Altera board which had a display, some LED lights and programmable buttons. One of the more useful exercises was to write a binary calculator using the LEDs' and the buttons. So, here's my questions:

  • Is there something similar (or a good substitute) that you can plug into the raspberry pi?
  • Is there some obvious downside to using the Raspberry Pi that I haven't thought of (maybe ARM assembly isn't a good way to learn)?
  • Is there perhaps something else that the instruction set manual will allow us to do that could give some visual effects on the Pi?
tlhIngan
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I'm not solving all your problems, but you can use GPIO to activate LEDs and recieve input from buttons.

There is a good video about using GPIO here, and a google search should help.

You could try getting a breadboard here (very cheap!), or again, google will do no end of good.

I actually have these two LED kits, which are nice for their variation of different LEDs, but there's such a range of LEDs that it really depends on what you are looking for.

Push-to-make switches are a little harder to come across, but you can find some here for example.

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