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cmjones01 · 30th Aug 2019, 4:23 pm

Yes, what MrBungle said. Remember that a basic Arduino is nothing more than a quite basic Atmel AVR chip (similar to a low-end PIC) soldered to a circuit board with a convenient USB interface and an easy programming environment. It's a good way to start with embedded control, and microcontrollers don't get much simpler than this.

I use the very same range of AVR chips in various commercial products, but squeeze more sophisticated and reliable behaviour out of them with more advanced programming techniques using Atmel's 'AVR Studio' environment, which uses AVR-gcc under the bonnet. The hardware is the pretty much the same as an Arduino, though!

Chris

30th Aug 2019, 4:23 pm	#3
cmjones01 Nonode Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland and Cambridge, UK Posts: 2,676	Re: Embedded Control for a newbie Yes, what MrBungle said. Remember that a basic Arduino is nothing more than a quite basic Atmel AVR chip (similar to a low-end PIC) soldered to a circuit board with a convenient USB interface and an easy programming environment. It's a good way to start with embedded control, and microcontrollers don't get much simpler than this. I use the very same range of AVR chips in various commercial products, but squeeze more sophisticated and reliable behaviour out of them with more advanced programming techniques using Atmel's 'AVR Studio' environment, which uses AVR-gcc under the bonnet. The hardware is the pretty much the same as an Arduino, though! Chris __________________ What's going on in the workshop? http://martin-jones.com/