I am currently undertaking software engineering program in one of the local universities at my country. And i am interesting in software and hardware. So i decided to learn it by myself. One of my seniors told me to start with PIC 16 or 18 first. Anyone of here has any links for the related website? And where can i get a device to program PIC other than ebay? thx in advance.
A:
For a real gentle introduction you can try the PICAXE from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICAXE all the components are available from http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/
If you want to dive in to real pic land then you can get hold of a dev board from http://www.mikroe.com/eng/home/index/ or something similar from elsewhere.
As for documentation and tutorials then google is your friend.
Oh, in case you get tempted, it seems the cool kids are using the Arduino (not pic) from http://www.arduino.cc/
zaf
2010-05-08 09:51:22
Yep, AVR is much nicer than PIC, especially for an embedded beginner.
Andrew McGregor
2010-05-08 09:54:27
A:
The PICkit 3 is a relatively inexpensive programmer/in-circuit debugger that connects to your computer via USB:
MSumulong
2010-08-05 20:08:09