Your note below touches on a topic I've been thinking about but haven't
found a starting place.
I'd like to learn about microcontrollers. What they are, what they do,
how to make them do what I want. Eventually use them in some of my
homebrew projects.
You mention Arduino. Someone gave me a beginner's book about the
PIC16F676. There are probably other entry points into this broad topic.
Is there a place to go to get an overview? Learn what's out there,
perhaps get enough insight to enable me to pick a direction? A web site?
A book? An email reflector?
Steve
On 5/18/2010 11:00 AM, Andrew Villeneuve wrote:
> To anyone intimidated by MCUs, I'd recommend the Arduino platform. It's AVR
> based, costs about $30, and doesn't need any additional hardware for
> programming or serial debugging (except for a USB cable).
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> I particularly like that it comes with an IDE for Mac/Windows/Linux and
> doesn't require you to set up a cross-compiler environment. With my old
> SAM7X controller, I think I spent more time setting up and IDE and a
> cross-compiler than I ever did writing code or using the controller.
>
> The MCU is socketed and can be built into your project and replaced for
> around $5 after you get it working correctly.
>
> -Andrew
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> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, sailingto<sailingtoo@...> wrote:
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>>> I only ask that you
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>>>> refrain from asking for one till you have purchased a printer and are
>>>> serious about the project.
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>> That sounds very fair and the possible $5 price tag is more than
>> reasonable!! Thank you for all your work.
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>>> Or the hex file for a PIC, as those are more common and the
>>> programmers are widely spread.
>>> Cristian
>>>
>> and here it was I though the AVR chips were most "widely spread"
>> {grinning}..... well, maybe not yet, but they sure are gaining!!!
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>> I do really like this idea, and as I've mentioned before, if the TT method
>> wasn't working so good for me, I'd sure be looking at this..... and once the
>> double sided issue is worked out I might have to try it anyway....
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>> I WILL be following these threads.
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>> Ken H>
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