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From: jetq88 on 15 Mar 2007 18:00 On Mar 15, 3:52 pm, John E. <incogn...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > PIC is king, I'm sure. But I'd like to hear from those who are using all > brands. Whichever you use, what do you like about it? What don't you like > about others? Suggestions re. learning? > > I've programmed 68000 assembly and some higher-level languages (FORTRAN; some > BASIC; COBOL if forced to admit it), so no stranger to programming, per se. > > Thanks, > -- > John English AVR, M68HC, PIC, pick either one, find a C compiler, go with it, some chips have free compiler out there, like winavr for avr.
From: John E. on 15 Mar 2007 18:11 Thanks for your comments, Martin. > And be sure to practice your soldering skills/ interfacing techniques, > this is very important compared with the Windoze World That's really why I'm interested in getting into the u-controller world. To interface hardware to the "real world". Soldering iron warmed up and at the ready... -- John English
From: Don McKenzie on 15 Mar 2007 18:09 John E. wrote: > PIC is king, I'm sure. But I'd like to hear from those who are using all > brands. Whichever you use, what do you like about it? What don't you like > about others? Suggestions re. learning? > > I've programmed 68000 assembly and some higher-level languages (FORTRAN; some > BASIC; COBOL if forced to admit it), so no stranger to programming, per se. > > Thanks, http://www.dontronics-shop.com/pages.php?pageid=23 http://www.dontronics-shop.com/pages.php?pageid=58 should provide a few pointers Don... -- Don McKenzie E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/e-mail.html Crystal clear, super bright OLED LCD (128x128) for your microcontroller. Simple serial RX/TX interface. Many memory sizes. http://www.dontronics-shop.com/product.php?productid=16460 No More Damn Spam: http://www.wizard-of-oz.com
From: Brendan Gillatt on 15 Mar 2007 18:21 On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:52:06 -0700, John E. <incognito(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >PIC is king, I'm sure. But I'd like to hear from those who are using all >brands. Whichever you use, what do you like about it? What don't you like >about others? Suggestions re. learning? > >I've programmed 68000 assembly and some higher-level languages (FORTRAN; some >BASIC; COBOL if forced to admit it), so no stranger to programming, per se. > >Thanks, You can't really say what one is 'best' - it depends on what you really want to do. Even with PICs it's hard to say which is best - from tiny 8 pin controllers to massive 44 pin processing beasts with hundreds in between. PIC assembly is tiresome at the least. The instruction set is tiny which means that they take considerably more coding than, say, x86 assembly. Atmel micros are becoming popular too - though I haven't had any experience with them. Depending on what you want, you may look at *gasp* Basic Stamps, made by Parralax (sp?) if you know BASIC well - just don't count on amazing performance.
From: martin griffith on 15 Mar 2007 18:41
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:11:02 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John E. <incognito(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Thanks for your comments, Martin. > >> And be sure to practice your soldering skills/ interfacing techniques, >> this is very important compared with the Windoze World > >That's really why I'm interested in getting into the u-controller world. To >interface hardware to the "real world". > >Soldering iron warmed up and at the ready... <sticking neck out> checkout: SPI interface, (realtime clocks, external eeproms etc.) I2C, the uberversal philips interface, same as SPI, but different, and pain in the neck IMHO logic fets H bridge opto isolators Reset and brownout detectors/ TL77xx etc from TI and the universal "why doesn't my 2*8 LCD work" Cos it takes many milliseconds to initialise, check the Fuckin* busy flag </sticking neck out> and get a decent bench/lab power supply with adjustable current limiting, and a scope martin |