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   Hey there....my arduino uno just arrived yesterday and all is well with it but i do have some questions for you guys. I'm actually interested in how C handles the requests for it so i was wondering if there is any tutorial online about the actual physical  addresses used in communicating with it.

    I like how simple the interface software makes it to communicate with the board but the lack of a main function and the use of macros and constants for everything doesn't actually let you see much.  

I appologise in advance if this has been asked before and i thank anyone who's willing to give me a few tips...

Oh ....and since this is my first post on this board i'd like to say it's nice to be part of this community and i hope to be able to help with whatever i can when i learn more .

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Cool, another arduinoist.

The datasheet of the processor http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno in combination with the files in installation_directory\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino should be a good start.

Regards,
Jeroen

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Welcome.

Are you trying to find information about "low level" things?  Like what a register does?  Like how your C code eventually turns on a digital output?

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If you want to use the bare Avr-libC I have a small but growing series of tutorials:
http://hekilledmywire.wordpress.com/

You talk about the communication part, well the arduino uno as an atmega328p as its main micro-controller, that micro as an USART which lets you do serial communications, that serial stream is feed to the atmega8u2 that as inbuild usb capabilities and send your data stream over a virtual com port.

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And you program an Arduino in real genuine C/C++ language.  

Lefty

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Thanks a lot guys...i guess this is the kind of stuff i was looking for ill dig right in

edit : I'm trying to find out how to interact with the board writinc c code from scratch....because i find it interesting and i think i can handle myself around bit shifts , pointers and the like. I like the fact that all the functions contain only abstract info...making everything that much more accesible , but if i get the hang of stuff perhaps i'll be able to make my own contributions in the future