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or if you dont want to use PICs there are a whole shed load of ATMELs to do various stuff too 2008/10/24 Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steve James <ste@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Friday 24 October 2008, Tom Potts wrote: >>> On Friday 24 October 2008 12:36, Robin Cornelius wrote: >>> >>> You couldn't actually give me some clues to suppliers/prices/details here - >>> searches for this sort of thing seem to be hijacked and the closest I've >>> got is for a Philips LPC900 but the UK link takes me to arrow.co.uk who >>> don't seem to have functioning e-mail - I've never had a reply from them >>> yet! I guess these things should be in the £5 per one off region?? >>> Tom te tom te tom >> >> Tom, try CPC [1] or RS [2]. Probably Maplin too. >> >> Good luck, >> Steve. >> >> [1] - >> http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+521+500001+1001900&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=pic&Ntx= >> >> [2] - >> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=retrieveTfg&binCount=104&Ne=4294957561&Ntt=pic&Ntk=I18NAll&Nr=AND%28avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN%29&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=4294955193&Nty=1 >> >> > > Yea the actual PIC's are made my "Microchip" although there are > similar types of product from other manufactures Microchip pretty much > dominates this type of controller market. > > Probably the best type are the 16F variety and you might just as well > get a PicKit2 > > http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en023805 > > which i see for about £35 with a pic to get you started, and new picks > are a couple of quid each :- > > http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Integrated-Circuits/PIC-Microcontrollers/PICkit-2-Starter-Kit/77048/kw/97-0101?source=googleps&utm_source=googleps. > > There are also pic assemblers/compilers for linux which seem to work, gputils > > You can program them in C, but for very simple apps you can use PICs > assembly language. Just bare in mine the extreamly limited memory and > code space, but its sufficient for a lot of applications and you can > do surprisingly complex things > > Robin > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/S d- s+:+ a+ C+++ U+++ P L++ E W++ N+ K- w--$ O— M- V— L++++>$ PS+++ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5+++ X- R+ tv- b DI++ D++ G e* h+ r++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html