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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: kyouabian on January 25, 2009, 11:05:50 AM
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I am interested in buying your the microcontroller that is on this site.
I am a beginner to electronics and wanted to ask you a few basic questions as to whether your axon microcontroller would be good for me.
I am looking for a microcontroller to use in my car. So it needs to work with 12 volts power.
What voltage does the axon microcontroller work with?
I need it to have several analog inputs and outputs that could receive/send from 0-12 volts.
Can the axon do that?
Can the axon microcontroller be programmed in BASIC?
If not, are there any compilers that can convert BASIC code to C or C++?
Thank you for your help.
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Hi,
Microcontrollers need 5V or less (differs). In a car, that is usually taken care of with a voltage regulator that converts the "12V" down to 5V or whatever is needed.
Take a look at PIC BASIC (Pro) if you wanna go with a PIC or http://www.mikroe.com/en/compilers/ (which I never tried), for either PIC or AVR.
Perhaps you should seriously consider the BASIC Stamp (II), as it is probably the fastest way to a useful circuit given that you are a beginner.
Btw. Everything a BS(II) can do, a PIC and a PIC BASIC compiler can do much faster and way cheaper (at least if you use the demo or the web based compiler).
"Several analog...."
Electronics is an exact science like math and only if you get into Fuzzy Logic you should consider terms like "several". Outside the Fuzzy realm, please be more specific (like eg. "6 to 8 analog..." or whatever).
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kyouabian, have a look at the sample C code that is provided for the Axon. If it makes sense to you, perhaps you won't need basic? :P