On 11/16/2011 01:07 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote: > At 09:44 AM 11/16/2011, John Ferrell wrote: >=20 >> I gave up the resistance and ordered a UNO board & a couple of spare=20 >> chips yesterday. I must see closer! >=20 > You can even stay with PICs, if you want. Digilent is now selling=20 > Arduino clone boards called chipKIT, based on the PIC32=20 > processor. They extended the original Arduino compiler (open-source)=20 > to handle the different chip. You can take your existing Arduino=20 > code, re-compile for the different platform, and it works. >=20 > >=20 > chipKIT Uno32 $26.95 list > chipKIT Max32 $49.50 list I've picked up both an Arduino (Nanode) and a couple of ChipKits. I'm hoping to learn a bit more about these as I will be supporting users (friends) who want to play with this stuff. --=20 Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .