Thread: Stamp or PIC?
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Re: Stamp or PIC?

actually a Basic Stamp board contains a PIC chip - I dont know if you can reprogram them to run assembly or C.

You can get 8 pin PIC chips that allow you to do some amazing things - two pins are power and gnd, that leaves you 6 IO pins to work with - but even still - they have design contests every once in a while and its amazing what some people have done with 8 pin PIC chips.

the PIC programmer pods are not expesive - and Im pretty sure you can program some PIC devices with a serial link without the need for a pod.

Ive been using MicroChips devices for about 8 years now and I think they are excellent.