Uses for a PIC

[RogerTango]

I would like to urge you to examine the line of Picaxe chips... Pics with a custom bootstrap. They are cheap, widely supported and easy to program. I am having a lot of fun with them.

GL-
Andrew

 

[BeeBop]

I am having a lot of fun with them.

Another cool handle.

That is one great reason, the other is to keep one's brain from becoming mush in later years.

 

[AcousticBruce]

Good original ideas become products. If you do not have the talent to build what has already been done you will not have the talent to build that new idea when it comes to you.

Wow! That is a great quote. Is this yours? I want to save this.

 

[3v0]

Wow! That is a great quote. Is this yours? I want to save this.

It is as far as I know.

 

[The Ponderer]

Roger Tango,
Thanks for the PICAXE suggestion.
I had just starting looking at these, and I think these may be just the thing.
My logic is if I want to play PICS, let's get stuck in and do something... soon.
For my uses, a few milliseconds here and there would have no effect on any project I would consider, and as I don't envisage a production run, the extra cost would be totally insignificant as well.
STAMP technonology seems a bit expensive, though!
Bye for now

 

[RogerTango]

Roger Tango,
Thanks for the PICAXE suggestion.
I had just starting looking at these, and I think these may be just the thing.
My logic is if I want to play PICS, let's get stuck in and do something... soon.
For my uses, a few milliseconds here and there would have no effect on any project I would consider, and as I don't envisage a production run, the extra cost would be totally insignificant as well.
STAMP technonology seems a bit expensive, though!
Bye for now

If you live in the US, Ill send you a 14M on a proto PCB that I design and build, and you can start experimenting with them right away! Ill even include a power supply PCB with a 7805 on it so all you need is a wall wart (12v works nice) and your up and running.

PM me if you are interested.

Andrew

 

[blueroomelectronics]

Better than any BASIC Stamp and more flexible than the PICAxe would be Swordfish BASIC for the 18F. Well worth a look and the free SE edition.

 

[RogerTango]

Except for Sword is $149 and Picaxe programmer is free.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Except for Sword is $149 and Picaxe programmer is free.

Except the free demo version is free - and will out perform a PICAXE by many, many times.

 

[3v0]

Which puts you right back where you started execpt the language is Swordfish Basic instead of C18. Both are good and both allow for the use of in circuit debugging. Both take about the same effort to learn.