tajiknomi
New Member
Hi everyone,
I'm making a security system which will have a GSM module in it. I need an advice on MCU to which i can connect both GSM module and i can use some its I/O pins to external circuit also. So i have searched for it and i find Arduino with its GSM shield but there are two problems with it.
1) Arduino GSM shield is expensive.
2) When its GSM shield is connected to Arduino , it leaves no I/O pins for me to drive external circuit.
Can i use PIC MCU for this purpose ? it will be cheap. Using GSM features (like sending/receiving msgs) using PIC maynot be as simple as in Arduino (i don't know yet, i just guess it)
Is their any other platform (Inexpensive & efficient) for my purpose ? Is there any better way to do this ?
Any advice/suggestions will be helpful.
thanks
I'm making a security system which will have a GSM module in it. I need an advice on MCU to which i can connect both GSM module and i can use some its I/O pins to external circuit also. So i have searched for it and i find Arduino with its GSM shield but there are two problems with it.
1) Arduino GSM shield is expensive.
2) When its GSM shield is connected to Arduino , it leaves no I/O pins for me to drive external circuit.
Can i use PIC MCU for this purpose ? it will be cheap. Using GSM features (like sending/receiving msgs) using PIC maynot be as simple as in Arduino (i don't know yet, i just guess it)
Is their any other platform (Inexpensive & efficient) for my purpose ? Is there any better way to do this ?
Any advice/suggestions will be helpful.
thanks