Companies Selling Microcontroller Kits?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 20, 2004 @04:20PM from the for-building-your-own-digital-projects dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm in college working on an electrical engineering degree, and I've had a few labs so far involving microcontroller setups. I'd now like to start doing some microcontroller projects of my own devising, so I'll need a programmer, the development software, and the MCUs themselves. The problem is that I don't have a wide experience with the different companies selling this sort of equipment. I know about the BASIC Stamps and the PIC offerings, but what other architectures are there? Both of the MCUs I've named have development tools, but they're for Windows. Are there any companies out there that supply their tools for BSD/Linux? What open source projects are there working on this (I've found gputiles). As always, free (as in beer) is good for us college students. :-)"

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good book for pics by brandond1976 · 2004-05-20 16:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers by Myke Predko
Available on Amazon. The book icludes a PCB and parts list for building a PIC programmer. It includes a dos program (runs fine in wine) for transfering your programs to your pics.
This book is a lot of fun if your into this type of thing. I highly recommend it.