Recomend Microcontroller for Begginer.
Recomend Microcontroller for Begginer.
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My son is showing an interest and aptitude for programming. He has done a few electronic projects and in the back of my mind I figured that someday I'd encourage him in the direction of programing microcontrollers. He's 14 and has gotten into this online game called Mine Craft. It's a game where you build vast structures and more. Involved in this construction is programming and peramaters using some progamming language. I don't know microcontroller programming myself but I'd like to learn with him.
Can you give us advice as to which micro controller would be good for us to get into? I've seen PIC controllers advertized as well as Arduino. I know technology goes different dirrections ,(ie Beta / VHS ), so I'd like to choose a good "road" to start my son on to learn microcontrollers for building robotics projects etc.
Thank You,
Biff
Can you give us advice as to which micro controller would be good for us to get into? I've seen PIC controllers advertized as well as Arduino. I know technology goes different dirrections ,(ie Beta / VHS ), so I'd like to choose a good "road" to start my son on to learn microcontrollers for building robotics projects etc.
Thank You,
Biff





RE: Recomend Microcontroller for Begginer.
Grab a Basic Stamp. A lot of them just snap onto a 9V battery and run a Basic interpreter.
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/295/Default.aspx
Once he runs these out of steam, the rational and desire to deal with harder code for higher performance is a smoother transition. Then a PIC dev board or an Arduino would make more sense.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Parallax has tended to concentrate on the robots, ala Sumo, etc., but many of the accessories are quite expensive, compared to comparable accessories for the Arduino.
I have really spent as much time on either, as I should have, so I may be off on some of my perspectives.
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I actually own a basic stamp from 20 years ago. I got all set up to build a tachometer for a cotton planter when my mentor up and moved. So this basic stamp has set, unused, in the box since. It seems I remember they can degrade with time(?). If I'm not mistaken it has, in addition to the 9v snap, a serial cable to interface with the computers of circa 1990(?). I don't know basic language. Where would I find a good tutorial in using/ programing the Stamp?
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The BOE and BOE-bot kits are well written texts that guide the user quite well through the ins and outs of simple digital and analog connections. IMOP, YMMV, etc. etc.
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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$1.75 postage paid from Hong Kong:
http://cgi
Hard to beat that...
re: BASIC. BASIC is pretty basic. Your original Stamp should have come with a manual and some example source code. There are downloads, tutorials, and community support available from Parallax:
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/477/Default.aspx
http://www
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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i made a physical water spray timer from it
sam wong
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Is that Keil free?
Keith Cress
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