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Discussion forum for the BasicX family of microcontroller chips.
Mircocontroller Starter Kit - fung_jay - Sep 26 1:17:18 2007
Hi, I am a hardware design engineer and I don't have much experience
in coding, except for some in Verilog and very little knowledge of C.
I am looking to do some side hobbyist project as well as gaining some
hardware coding experience. As a starter, what would be a good
microcontroller development kit to purchase with complete software
package including some small test code for me to get start. I am not
looking for the latest and greatest but something that will allow me
to learn and perhaps upgrade with add-on's later. Your suggestions
are greatly appreciated.
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in coding, except for some in Verilog and very little knowledge of C.
I am looking to do some side hobbyist project as well as gaining some
hardware coding experience. As a starter, what would be a good
microcontroller development kit to purchase with complete software
package including some small test code for me to get start. I am not
looking for the latest and greatest but something that will allow me
to learn and perhaps upgrade with add-on's later. Your suggestions
are greatly appreciated.
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Re: Re: Mircocontroller Starter Kit - David Sousa Mendes - Sep 26 9:24:11 2007
I agree with the opinion that parallax does have well prepared stuff for the begginers...
Stamps in classe is indeed well structured for a begginner level... That is also what I
did...
And then, when you want to start building real projects and you feel better prepared you'de better move to basicX!
BR
David
----- Original Message -----
From: billballbx24
To: b...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: [BasicX] Re: Mircocontroller Starter Kit
At the risk of being charged with heresy here I would suggest you take
a look at the BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit from http://www.parallax.com.
The BASIC stamp is similar to but less powerful than a BX24. However
there is a lot more handholding for the new user with Parallax projects
and this kit is very complete. It's worth the $150 if you want to be
tutored through every step and have everything at hand to do the
tutorials. When you're done if it doesnt meet your needs you can give
it to your kids, a local school, or sell it on ebay and move on to
something more powerful.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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And then, when you want to start building real projects and you feel better prepared you'de better move to basicX!
BR
David
----- Original Message -----
From: billballbx24
To: b...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: [BasicX] Re: Mircocontroller Starter Kit
At the risk of being charged with heresy here I would suggest you take
a look at the BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit from http://www.parallax.com.
The BASIC stamp is similar to but less powerful than a BX24. However
there is a lot more handholding for the new user with Parallax projects
and this kit is very complete. It's worth the $150 if you want to be
tutored through every step and have everything at hand to do the
tutorials. When you're done if it doesnt meet your needs you can give
it to your kids, a local school, or sell it on ebay and move on to
something more powerful.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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