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Re: Selecting a microcontroller
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Originally Posted by Binome
A good cheap programmer is the Pickit 2 from microchip, at around $35 its a steal for a high voltage programmer.
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You know if one were to ignore the fact that it uses a Serial port the STK500 from Atmel is a far better choice than anything from Microchip. Also, the Arduino and an AVRISP would be a nice cheap development environment.
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An arduino or basic stamp all seem like probably a bit overkill for what I'd like to do.
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Why would an Arduino be overkill? It's an Atmega168 which for all intents and purposes is equivalent to the PICs. It just has extra peripherals that you probably would end up adding in the end.
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Something I just realized that does change the number of I/Os needed as well as the current:
I only plan to drive two of the LEDs. I can achieve the effect I want entirely without using one of the colors
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You typically don't want to drive LEDs directly off the IO port of a microcontroller. LED drivers are usually utilized which the microcontroller controls.
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 23-05-2008 at 09:55.
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