Microcontroller newbe question - what to use

[davecla]

I'm after a micro controller that needs to take 5 or 6 inputs and drive 3 relays as outputs. It also need to have a clock.

An ethernet or wireless interface would be great too.

I looked at the arduino, any suggestions where else to look?

thanks

dave

 

[Pommie]

The I/O and clock bits can be done with almost any uC (The 16F88 or 18F1320 will do). Adding any sort of Ethernet connection will take it well out of the beginner area. The TCP stack is not an easy thing to get your head around. If you still want to try to add WiFi then take a look at **broken link removed** and read the documentation.

Mike.

 

[stephen87]

What you need is a small microcontroller (with few pins) since you do not need many IO ports. So an audrino would fit exactly even since you probably a beginner. Regarding the ethernet interface ou can connect a module to the audrino and will make life easy.

Other microcontrollers are 18f1220/18f1320 and atmega8.