Microcontrollers for Beginners
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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 open 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.
