Microcontrollers for Beginners

Assumptions

You:

• Do not have a lot of money
• Do not have a lot of electronics gear or experience.
• Do not have a lot of programming experience.
• Do want quick gratification.
• Do not want to do really fancy stuff right off the bat.

Use the Arduino

Use the Arduino Because:

It is a development board It is inexpensive. There is a broad amount of activity on the web, and a lot aimed at non techincl users. It and its software is opne source. There is a lot of library support for common tasks.

Use Something Else

At least use a development Board

You are ready to go at almost the cost of components, you can get a kit or prebuilt. Some of these are:

USB Bitwacker

Use a high level language

The best may be C this is written about the PIC but applies to other processers as well Use C for PIC Programming!

but almost any is better than assembler -- this is dispite what the hard core says.