I brought a bunch of 8 pins ones to play with (Australia).  They're quite
popular here, the local electronics mag (Silicon Chip) has run many
articles.

Of course, you don't get much program space, 40 lines in the smallest, and
slow speed compared a PIC using assembler.  They're perfect for little jobs,
like running bilge pumps, sunset switches etc.

Tony



> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Howard Winter
> Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 10:58 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [PIC] cheap, trusty programmer?
>
>
> Tony,
>
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:27:47 +1000, Tony Smith wrote:
>
> > Since you're in the UK, you should have mentioned
www.picaxe.co.uk!  A Basic
> Stamp on a single chip, several varieties (8-40 pin, if I recall).

I didn't want to muddy the waters any further!  :-)

> 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.

I admit it's something that I have always been meaning to play with - I
don't know how they do it for the
price, which is not much more than the cost of the PIC itself (and you're
right, they have offerings using
several PICs across the range).

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

But for those Right-Ponded among us, they're cheaper to buy direct (which
makes a nice change :-)
http://www.picaxe.co.uk

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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