6 or so years ago I had a couple of PIC development boards.  (Unfortunately=
, I don't think they work any more.)

A colleague gave me a Raspberry Pi.  And after a dormant time, I am having =
fun playing with all this technology.

So instead of a programmer, this time, I think an Arduino will be right for=
 me.  The Raspberry Pi is great, too, but I think it is more designed for r=
unning from a terminal.  As opposed to:  Program the PIC/Arduino/etc, unplu=
g it, then let it run on its own.=20

The RPi is not like that.  It's a Linux system that has input/output capabi=
lities.  Both have their place.


________________________________________
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] on behalf of Herber=
t Graf [hkgraf@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 December 2013 18:25
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: RE: [EE] Help configuring a 555

don't know if the op has a programmer, if they don't it's not that big
a deal to get and will open up vastly more possibilities.


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