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microcontroller/programming advice please bob 11-18-2005
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Posted by Chris Spencer on November 25, 2005, 5:38 pm
Joe Strout wrote:

>>i'm also keen to get into visual basic, if this is appropriate for
>>programming these controllers.
>
>
> I don't think you can directly program any microcontroller from VB, but
> you *could* control something like a serial motor controller board (and
> again, Pololu makes a good one at a very low price -- and no, I don't
> work for them, I'm just a big fan!).

Although it's certainly not VB (some might call that a good thing;), it
may be possible to directly run Python on Atmel AVRs using PyMite
(http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyMite ).

Chris

Posted by werty on November 23, 2005, 9:36 am

PIC ( MicroChip ) is the largest sellor of MCU's .
I hate the instruction set . h/w is just too old fashioned .
I dont go near them , too much work to make them do
reallly big jobs .

I have Atmel . The 8515/35 has limited Prog mem ,
but being a clever Forth programmer , i put the code outside !

I'm going for the ARM to build a PDA or buy and write an OpSys for it
( less work huh ?)

The TI 430F133 is here in Asia for $50 .
The instruction set is the best ever !!!
Get as much CMOS ram as you can , for
its much lower power "on chip" than off .
My specialty is instruction sets .
The Intel P4 and AMD AXDA1800DUTC3 etc
are crap and they will die .

ARM will beat them out .


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