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  1. Microcontrollers by glindsey · · Score: 2, Interesting · on DIY Warriors Saluted And Sought

    I have to point out the incredibly useful Atmel AVR series of microcontrollers. Inexpensive ($2 to $8 each), easy to program (there's a GCC port readily available), entirely Flash-based, and pretty powerful for eight-bit microcontrollers. There's a large hobby development community over at AVRFreaks; if you're interested in homebrewing some great projects, check it out!

  2. Consider the AVR by maetenloch · · Score: 2, Informative · on Companies Selling Microcontroller Kits?

    If you're doing simple one-off projects, the BasicStamp is all you need. If you think you'll be doing more projects, it's probably worth investing the time to learn a more complete architecture like the AVR from Atmel.

    For $135 you can get a complete development kit for the AVR complete with programmer, leds, and push buttons that will work with almost any chip in the AVR family. You can get a complete GCC toolchain for the AVR free here and lots of support at AvrFreaks.com. That's pretty much all you need to start developing real applications.

  3. Consider the AVR by maetenloch · · Score: 2, Informative · on Companies Selling Microcontroller Kits?

    If you're doing simple one-off projects, the BasicStamp is all you need. If you think you'll be doing more projects, it's probably worth investing the time to learn a more complete architecture like the AVR from Atmel.

    For $135 you can get a complete development kit for the AVR complete with programmer, leds, and push buttons that will work with almost any chip in the AVR family. You can get a complete GCC toolchain for the AVR free here and lots of support at AvrFreaks.com. That's pretty much all you need to start developing real applications.

  4. Re:Why replicate down to last detail? by NateTech · · Score: 1 · on Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection

    If you're just looking to work with a small microprocessor/computer to get that nostalgic feel, just take a modern microcontroller and start breadboarding.

    Microcontroller products from Microchip and Atmel fit the bill nicely.

    For support and help with Microchip PIC microcontroller development, you can hardly go wrong with the MIT-PICList, and for Atmel AVR micros AVRFreaks is the place to go.

    Then you'll probably find yourself over at DigiKey buying parts for your projects after you have gained some insight into just how cool it is to have a 40 MHz processor with 2K or more of FLASH RAM on-board in a 18-pin device right at your fingertips that only needs a PC and some imagination to program to act like just about any logic device.

    Have fun twiddling those bits, boys and girls.

  5. He's not the only one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers

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  6. Re:That's missing a key point... by spongman · · Score: 5, Informative · on Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?
    alternatively, scrounge some simple electronics components (bread board, power supply), build yourself an oscilloscope, get an Atmel AVR microcontroller, connect it to your computer using a parallel port interface, compile code with GCC and upload it to your device.

    Note: some assembly required, batteries not included.

  7. Re:That's missing a key point... by spongman · · Score: 5, Informative · on Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls?
    alternatively, scrounge some simple electronics components (bread board, power supply), build yourself an oscilloscope, get an Atmel AVR microcontroller, connect it to your computer using a parallel port interface, compile code with GCC and upload it to your device.

    Note: some assembly required, batteries not included.