Since you're in the UK, you should have mentioned www.picaxe.co.uk!  A Ba=
sic
Stamp on a single chip, several varieties (8-40 pin, if I recall).

Put it in a white breadboard, download a program via RS-232, have a play.
If you get bored of the Basic, wipe it and you're left with a real PIC.

Peter Anderson - www.phanderson.com sells them in the States.  Quick, he'=
s
going on holidays in a few weeks!

Tony



> > A BS2 costs about 50 bucks, right?
>
> Depends where you buy them - from Maplin, here in
> Rip-Off-Britain, they are UK=A345 (say US$82 at current
> exchange rates)...
>
> > I'm curious to ask people in the know where the cost is.
>
> The *cost* was in the development of the language and the
> interpreter to run it and possibly in user support
> (if there is any) plus a little for the hardware.  The *value* is
> in not having to learn PIC assembler and not
> needing a programmer - the program is sent straight to the BS
> from the PC serial port.
>
> Whether the price is good value for money is a debate that could
> run and run!  :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>

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