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Re: Private bot - which PIC microcontroller?
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Soooo....the serial cable si the only way to program it. Check it out.
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No it isn't the only way. Look at the documentation again for the Butterfly. You can either program it using an ISP or a JTAG programmer. High voltage parallel programing is also supported but I have no idea why anyone would want to go that route unless somehow you screw up the fuse settings. Some assembly is required though because all of the ports are missing the header pins. I've used JTAG to program microcontrollers before. It's so nice seeing the program run and watching the registers change on the computer.
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The stk and dragon are nice, but they are nor rally made to be put onto a robot. They are good to use as a ISP programmer if you have a seperate board with ISP headers, or if you have a chip that needs to be flashed then put into a socket somewhere. But I have found that with my STK since it has no holes and no other good way to mount it anwhere that I use it strictly for a dev. board.
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I didn't actually say it should be placed on a robot. The dragon is just a bare bone pcboard with no way of mounting anything to it without some more assembly.
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The arduino is nice. It is basically the BASIC Stamp of the AVR world. I looks like you can only program it using the "arduino language" which to me is not good. It is better to learn how to do it right the first time. I also can't find a price for it.
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http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/pro...oducts_id=8164
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 08-07-2007 at 12:19.
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