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?
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
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com skrev:
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 :)
/Jan
You could have chosen a much more specific group:
Check out Rabbit Semiconductor and Futurlec.... What is that you like about the Parallax kits? That will help with suggesting options.
Peter Bear Technologies
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