[sdiy] Now what?!?! AVR, PIC, or Scenix SX?

[Synthusiast]

> Personally, I lean towards using the old slow tried and true Intel 803x
> series.  The one huge advantage is there are *tonnes* of tools out there
> for development and in 50 years someone somewhere will probably still be
> making them.  Disadvantages, takes up lots of board space and draws
> relatively alot of power.

Check out Atmel's 8051 architecture series here:
http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod20.htm
I've been using the AT89S53 (12K Flash, ISP interface) happily for quite a
bit of time. Only drawback I found is that it's still quite slow in general
due to the typical MCS-51 built-in clock dividing circuitry...

Cheers,
Martijn