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Low cost microcontrolling

I had a terrible issue at work today. We certainly have to give up from a windows controlled device, depending on time critical software to use a cheap and easy to find microcontroller.

Making a couple of phone calls to local electronics shops, draws me to one single option. Microchip's PIC 16F family.

So, let's go to PIC world:
http://www.grennan.com/picprog/ (Programming the PIC16F84 with LINUX)
The PIC16F84 is easily found at any electronics shops in my town. It costs around R$ 15,00 (fifteen reais), local brazilian currency, which is around US$ 8.45.

Programming PIC’s in Linux using C with SDCC

Intro to Programming PIC Microcontrollers in Linux

http://www.lancos.com/prog.html (PonyProg - GLP Serial devices programmer)

http://www.freenet.org.nz/sdcc/ (sdcc for PIC HowTo)

There is a good Spanish site about PIC projects at http://www.micropic.es/
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  1. D. Marcell GóngoraApril 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM

    Thanks for the links.
    I just got tired of Windows and I was a little worried about programming PICs in Ubuntu.

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