Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: 555 timer chip guy on April 30, 2007, 08:53:02 AM
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I Have seen the light and I am going to switch over to another company but which one, could some one point me in the direction of a company that sells good microcontrollers (preferably programed in PBASIC)
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Doesn't pbasic come from parallax, in which case I think it is made for parallax microcontrollers only. I do not know.
I should imagine that most popular microcontrollers (AVR, 8051, PIC, ARM) have some sort of programming language which is similar to BASIC, which I am guessing PBASIC is based on.
I myself have never programmed in basic, so a load of other SoR members may be able to help
http://www.amazon.com/PIC-Microcontroller-Project-Book-Compliers/dp/0071437045/sr=8-1/qid=1167610619?ie=UTF8&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/PIC-Microcontroller-Project-Book-Compliers/dp/0071437045/sr=8-1/qid=1167610619?ie=UTF8&s=books)
this one was reccomended by another SoR user. It has a BASIC facet to it.
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Doesn't pbasic come from parallax, in which case I think it is made for parallax microcontrollers only. I do not know.
microchip makes one of parallax basic stamp interpreter chips the PIC16C56A for there basic stamp one.
But what determines what a chip is programed in and how can I find :-[
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Here's a line of microcontrollers. They are quite pricy, but they are very easy to program and are done in BASIC. They aren't done in PBASIC, but you could do a little learning and get it down. I used them with my friend and they are very easy, and have a good debugger with them that makes data collecting very easy.
http://www.basicmicro.com/
You can also get a robot board, so you don't have to build anything from:
http://www.lynxmotion.com/Category.aspx?CategoryID=66
If you really get into robotics, you may begin to find BASIC quite limiting. I found that out a while ago. If you don't mind learning another programming language, I'd go with PICs ;D
I hope this helps.
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thanks