On 5/27/2021 1:12 PM, 'Michael Chaney' via NLUG wrote:
My younger son is at Alabama working on an EE degree (you may remember
him as a baby 20 years ago when the wife and kids showed up to a
meeting). Last semester he had a class on microcontrollers, and they
specifically used PIC series microcontrollers. He (and I) bought this
evaluation package that comes with four different microcontrollers:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/DM330013-2/2802029?s=N4IgTCBcDaILYEsDGAnA9gZwC7INYAIEEQBdAXyA
<https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/DM330013-2/2802029?s=N4IgTCBcDaILYEsDGAnA9gZwC7INYAIEEQBdAXyA>
They're interesting because the package contains the CPU along with
some amount of RAM and a little bit of flash. All of the external
pins on the package are IO pins, except for the required power and
clock pins. The IO pins are remappable and come in a couple of
flavors - some can do analog and pretty much all can be digital. They
have a couple of built in UARTs. The whole thing is amazing.
PIC Microcontrollers are pretty amazing. I got a chance to work with
them back in the early 2000s. Huge variety of package types and
functionality and they've only improved since then. Also relatively
cheap and they had a "free sample" program that was very handy on occasion.
If you want to jump into that side of things now, I'd recommend trying
one of the ESP packages. They have an SDK based off of the Arduino one
(I.e. C/C++ like) though there is some Python support and possibly other
higher-level languages, I think.
Rich
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