[time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

swingbyte swingbyte at exemail.com.au
Sat Feb 16 05:22:40 UTC 2008


John Miles wrote:
>> I just bought a book called "making things talk" from O'Reilly. I just
>> started reading it. The book looks fine but it appears that most of the
>> projects are based on the Arduino line of microcontroller modules and
>> they use the processing/wiring language. I am not crazy about learning
>> another language or using an IDE that shields me from details I ought to
>> know. I can program reasonably well in Python and I can get by with PHP
>> and C. I use Linux and am comfortable with it.
>>
>> Is anyone out there using a similar product that can be programmed in
>> Python, PHP, C or another common language?
>>     
>
> I'm a strong partisan of the AVR architecture.  Cheap, effective, and
> supported by GCC.
>
> Avoid *any* architecture that requires you to buy somebody's proprietary C
> compiler.  There's no excuse for that.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
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I concur with John - but I still have to learn whatever micro 's 
assembly for the smaller footprint jobs - like pics. 
When I was 14 I wanted to know how basic worked so I hand disassemble 
z80 machine code.  Now  I'm 40 and can still remember that machine code 
so I'm a little partial to the ez80 series.
Tim




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