AVR-Chat

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Kong wrote:

> 
> hi all,
> 
> foa, newbie here, so pls go easy, if you could ;-)
> i'm looking at building a weather station. google tells me there are a
> few out there based on PIC. someone suggested AVR atmega169 but i'm put
> off by its mlf packaging.
> i'll need adc, lcd, push buttons, ram/flash to store data history,
> serial to PC later. it looks like pic16f877 should be the trick for me
> but i figure i should give avr a chance. so i'm here looking at the
> whys/why-nots of using AVR to build my weather station.
> ok. flame away.
> 
> cheers
> -ls kong
> 

The atmega16 is not all that different than the PIC 16F877.  It's in the 
same package.  You will probably find the program a little simpler with 
the AVR, as I find the ADC, timers, etc. simpler to program in the AVR's 
(less setup directives). Also, the 32 working registers in the AVR's make 
things a lot simpler than the single W register in the PIC's.

Zack