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I pretty much jumped to the bangs and loud noises of high voltage electronics, now that I've grown up a bit I think I should go back and do some microcontroller stuff. Has anyone got any suggestions for some useful websites for guides?
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Takes a little research but I started with ATTINY2313 by Atmel (AVR)
They generally take more time to learn but you have full access to anything, as it's not a board. Have to make your own. Language is ASM or C. Will have to research but I use "USBTiny" programmer from adafruit. It help me set up the stuff I needed to get started. So if you don't know programming language, should start there!
I also use atmels AVRStudio
Been awhile since I coded but the most I've done was a copy of Yahtzee on a 24x4 character LCD...button inputs, sounds, and custom Dice characters.
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1up on Killa-X' advice. I find this website is useful in addition to those mentioned: Really, you just have to buy some chips + programmer, and decide to you want to learn. Knowing a programming language ahead of time helps a lot, though it's not necessary. If you're new to programming you can also use BASIC with both AVRs and PICs.
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Download wrote ...
I was thinking more along the lines of designing microcontoller based stuff, not buying a board and hooking stuff too it
The arduino is a great chip. Here is what I did with writing some code for it and designing stuff around it. I would also like to add I got some great help from this forum.
The schematics are on the weblink within the youtube description.
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The arduino isn't the chip it's more like the development platform, the chip itself is still an ATMeg AVR.
The PIC's are nice and easy since its in a basic language format, TI offers MSP somethings with a dev board for around $10, STMicro, has a similar deal with its STm8s line Discovery board plus they have a ARM Core M# cortex version for $10.
As to, where to get started...get ucontroler chip, programmer, software, a dev platform (Be it a breadboard or an actual dev board) learn the language and start writing code, its not like you have to understand thermodynamics or circuit design, ucontrollers are almost a complete plug-n-play device, just add code and add parts to the chips board and your done.
There is some trouble shooting involved but most is code related, the biggest thing is understanding the code, and syntax errors, as for a starting point with code, its pretty much the exact same for everybody and every chip, make an LED flash, then just play with it.
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I would recommend buying a few AVR or PIC chips and a programmer. I like AVR because of the free development software and cheap programmers. An ATMEGA168 is a good chip to start with.
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I never really got into microcontroller based electronics, where should I start
