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They are
wonderful little critters ranging from the tiny 6-pin
10F200 to the huge 33FJ256 and beyond. They come with loads of
built in features, are easy to program and they are
cheap. They are the PIC family microcontrollers from
Microchip and this section of the site is dedicated to
them.
Like many
before me my interests in PIC's started when I got one
of the original BasicStamp1 from Parallax some 10 years
ago. I quickly outgrew it and got the next step up - the
BasicStamp2 which is really nice microcontroller running
interpreted basic. When I needed another BS2 for a
project I realised that this was going to be an
expensive path. So when the PicStartPlus package was on
sale from a retailer got it and the PicBasic compiler
from
MicroEngineeringLabs. This compiler is backwards
compatible with the BasicStamp language so it was the
natural way to go. Later on, with the family of
available PIC's growing fast, I upgraded the compiler to
the PRO-version which is what I'm using now.
My
intention with this section of the site is to supply
information about my own projects in hope that will help
fellow PIC users to use them. |
