>We talked some
>about the possibility to introduce some kind of
>introductional course on microcontrolers

I guess one way to get instant interest would be to build the "pong" game,
or maybe keep that as a carrot to get them to see the course right through.

http://dt.prohosting.com/pic/pong.html

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