[sdiy] Microcontrollers, development environments and hardware programmer recommendations.

[Pete Hartman]

I don't do a huge amount but I use MPLAB X and program in C on my mac and
I'm plenty happy with it.  The PicKit 3 I use is very small (smaller than a
cellphone by more than half), I basically just need it, a USB cable, and a
2 x 3 stripboard I have set up just for programming chips -- of course if
you set up your circuit to be programmable in place, you wouldn't need that
last bit.

I have some of the necessary bits to program AVRs directly, but I've mostly
flashed other people's firmware with them.  I have done a bit of Arduino
programming but that's a really basic IDE, and the whole area is optimized
for beginners, so that may not be your cup of tea.

The one bit of actual compilation with GCC for AVR I've done, I was not
terribly happy about how many hoops there were to get the whole toolchain
working, but once it's done, it's done, so that may or may not be anything
you care about.

Pete



On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Ben Riggs <benalog1977 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s been at least a 10 year hiatus in which i’ve given away/lost my
> hardware/software capability to program micro controllers, of which i’m
> sure are redundant anyways. but now i’ve got some project ideas that i
> would like to implement and i’m not sure how to go about getting the
> capability back. In the past i used PIC12 PIC16 & PIC18 micro controllers,
> so it would be handy to stick with the PIC platform because thats where i’m
> experienced, but i’m open to other platform recommendations if more
> suitable.
>
> I started to look but became quickly overwhelmed.
>
> what I’m looking for as far as recommendations go is based on:
> 1. I travel a lot (8 months of the year living out of a suitcase/ working
> out of a pelican toolbox) and travel with a current model MacBook (with the
> single USB-C port). I noticed that MPLAB IDE X runs on mac which is good.
> what other development environments do?
> 2. a hardware programmer, portability is key. USB and port powered
> preferable.
> 3. are PICs old tech now? is it better to move on and learn something new?
> what are the options?
>
> any input and recommendations are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
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