AVR-Chat

I was pretty impressed by the BD Micro Maveric board.  For about $130  
you get the micro, all of the I/O brought out and a handful of  
peripherals.


On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
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> I'm looking into digging into AVR's and looking for some advice before
> I spend any money. My goal is to do some robotics control projects,
> preferably programming in C/C++ although I think it would be valuable
> to learn the native instruction set as well. No more than 4 motors and
> 4-10 simple sensors to start, so not an insane amount of I/O or I/O
> processing.
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> I have some experience with PIC's and the Motorola MC68HC11, although
> I've always programmed in higher level languages (InteractiveC, and
> whatever the PIC basic language is called), so I'm not a complete
> newbie when it comes to microprocessors. I have the basic electronics
> test equipment and supplies, etc.
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> What would you guys recommend as a "starter kit" to start learning and
> then proceed forward with some projects? An ISP and some chips or a
> prefabbed board? I'm open to any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
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