Microcontroller starter kit

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I'm currently studying mechanical engineering, but I want to focus
more on the robotics side of things. I'm looking into different
microcontroller starter kits and I was wondering if anyone had any
recormendations.

Right now I'm leaning towards one of the kits that Parallax offers.
Has anyone had any experience with any of these kits? Are there
better kits out there?

 

[BobG]

Read a little on avrfreaks.net and avrbeginners.net. Atmel AVR
processors are widely regarded as the fastest 8 bit microcontrollers,
easy to program, several c compilers avail. Parallax uses Microchip
PIC processores with a Basic interpreter. Easy to program, but the
basic interpreter eats a lot of cycles out of the pic... already a
little challenged because of its somewhat old architecture

 

[Jan Nielsen]

[email protected] skrev:

I'm currently studying mechanical engineering, but I want to focus
more on the robotics side of things. I'm looking into different
microcontroller starter kits and I was wondering if anyone had any
recormendations.

Right now I'm leaning towards one of the kits that Parallax offers.
Has anyone had any experience with any of these kits? Are there
better kits out there?

I use PICAXE, its programmed in BASIC trough 2 resistors, so no
expensive programmers.
They arent fast, and its fairly limited what chips you can get, but
programming them is fast

http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe



/Jan

 

[JeffM]

I was wondering if anyone had any recormendations.

You could have chosen a much more specific group:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=group:comp.arch.embedded+insubject:kit+OR+insubject:kits

 

[Peter]

I'm currently studying mechanical engineering, but I want to focus
more on the robotics side of things. I'm looking into different
microcontroller starter kits and I was wondering if anyone had any
recormendations.

Right now I'm leaning towards one of the kits that Parallax offers.
Has anyone had any experience with any of these kits? Are there
better kits out there?

Check out Rabbit Semiconductor and Futurlec.... What is that you like
about the Parallax kits? That will help with suggesting options.

Peter
Bear Technologies
www.beartech.com.au

 

[Larry Cates]

Also checkout Microchip

Check out Rabbit Semiconductor and Futurlec.... What is that you like
about the Parallax kits? That will help with suggesting options.

Peter
Bear Technologies
www.beartech.com.au