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amando96

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Not sure if this is the right category, what i'm talking about is actually a very small "computer"
Anyone Use it?
it's basically a small programmable computer, with I/O ports, ADCs, it's pretty cool. :P
arduino.cc
 
It's a microcontroller. I've been using PICs (from Microchip) for my electronic projects, you can do cool stuff as long as you know some C programming :good:
 
sniperchang said:
It's a microcontroller. I've been using PICs (from Microchip) for my electronic projects, you can do cool stuff as long as you know some C programming :good:
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what all can you do? it looks like all you can plug in is the power, and a vga cord?
 
bkribbs said:
what all can you do? it looks like all you can plug in is the power, and a vga cord?
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Thats a serial port for programming, the arduino is a microcontroller that has output pins you can use to control things, such as led/lcd displays(textual displays, similar to many car audio style, not color graphical displays), motors, all sorts of stuff. The possibilities of stuff you can build with PIC's or an Arduino is just about limitless.
 
bomberboysk said:
Thats a serial port for programming, the arduino is a microcontroller that has output pins you can use to control things, such as led/lcd displays(textual displays, similar to many car audio style, not color graphical displays), motors, all sorts of stuff. The possibilities of stuff you can build with PIC's or an Arduino is just about limitless.
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huh. that sounds pretty neat. but a little above my head. haha.
 
It's definitely not above anyone's head, when i got mine i didn't even know what it was for :P
and now the arduino mega is out, so colour displays are getting possible to interface, shame they are a bit pricy..
yeah i'm gonna start using PIC's when i'm done with my current project.
has anyone done any projects with one? post 'em!
and yeah, i like making my own boards, the duemillanove is just for prototyping, the final version is always on a home made PCB with everything soldered
 
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amando96 said:
It's definitely not above anyone's head, when i got mine i didn't even know what it was for :P
and now the arduino mega is out, so colour displays are getting possible to interface, shame they are a bit pricy..
yeah i'm gonna start using PIC's when i'm done with my current project.
has anyone done any projects with one? post 'em!
and yeah, i like making my own boards, the duemillanove is just for prototyping, the final version is always on a home made PCB with everything soldered
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PICs are a ton of fun. One of my classes at college spent the entire semester covering the PIC 16F887 and it was definitely an eyeopener in the way computers work. I'm not too good working in C, however in ASM, I rock :)
 
I am currently using Atmel Microcontroller mainly Atmega16 for my projects. I have tried getting into PIC but I found its language quite difficult to understand.
BTW I am planning to use arduino to implement into my next project of developing an UAV.
 
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