Thread: How To Question: Illuminate LED on passover?
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Re: How To Question: Illuminate LED on passover?
Instead of PICs (Leave it to me to be the one guy on a PIC loving forum who doesn't like PICs) you might consider Atmel AVR 8-bit RISC chips. They're very easily flashed and have a free open source C compiler based on the GNU GCC toolchain. If you go with a PIC anyway, google around for the No-Parts PIC Programmer circuit and software, but you'll still need a compiler unless you want to learn to do this in assembly, which is doable, but not as easy as C. If you go the AVR route feel feel to PM me with any questions I'll do my best to answer them.
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