Thread: Private bot - which PIC microcontroller?
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Re: Private bot - which PIC microcontroller?
www.machinescience.org has a great set of tools for PIC programming based on the PIC 16F877. I think you can still get free FIRST accounts for their web-based IDE. They've streamlined a lot of the programming by having a bootloader and serial programmer, similar to how the FRC controller works, but the microcontroller is fully-functional and you write code for it just like you would in any other development environment.

What are you using to drive the DC motors?

Edit: http://www.machinescience.org/firstoffer.html
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