The Microcontroller Thread.

[bajaguy]

I've been playing with these for the last year, and they are amazing! The programming is way easier that regular C+, and I picked it up pretty quick for a hardware guy. You can find stripped down boards like the RBBB and the dorkboards that will give ya big power and small size. The cool thing is that they run off of less than 40mA of 5VDC, so you can run them off a resistor nework with a standard 9V pedal with no problems.

The coolest thing is the stripped down boards are cheap ($12 for the kit through Wulfden), can be programmed over and over again, and recycled from project to project!

Bob

P.S. - If a guy wanted to build the controller can be used with it's internal clock instead of using s crystal and a pair of caps if a guy was trying to cut down on his parts count. I'm breadboarding a arduino circuit right now that uses an 8 pin ATTiny microprocessor that would make a 741 look big.