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Re: Private bot - which PIC microcontroller?

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I really wouldn't recommend using a serial cable. Just get one of their cheap programmers (Dragon/STK500) and you won't have to deal with any problems with the home built ones. They will help you get started much faster.
The butterfly has a built in boot loader and already pre-assembled. Which means you can't take the uC off. Soooo....the serial cable si the only way to program it. Check it out.

http://smileymicros.com/

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.

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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