iComputer
I am a programmer at mind and an electrics enthusiast in heart. So while programming an API interface around a PIC board for Guy-Tek’s latest product, I thought to myself why not try to learn more about electrics by programming a PIC. Now I’m not so great with the whole ASM and C world so I went looking around for a microchip that would be easy to understand so I wouldn’t have to learn an entirely new program language. I found a few, but to me the best ones are the OOPic, and Arduino. OOPic quite interesting with an Object-Oriented language with choices of a Basic, C, and Java syntaxes. While the Ardunino being only C syntax, it revolved around more of the computer – microchip communications. So I decided to first start with the Ardunino, being it was also cheaper it wouldn’t be such a large paper weight if I play dumb.
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