anyone do any work with PICmicros?

[Colt45]

just curious. i've been messing around with them a bit lately, and they seem like pretty cool little devices..

anyone else made anything with them?

 

[FrustratedUser]

I am posting on one now.

Seriously, no I haven't but I'm thinking about it.
What compiler, programmer and other stuff do you use?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

nope, but I've done embedded programming on TI's MSP430 chips. TI has a free compiler and IDE, so that works out pretty well. I can't discuss what I've used them for but they're pretty easy to program 🙂

 

[dighn]

PIC's architecture is kind of weird. I find AVRs far more intuitive and easy to work with.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
nope, but I've done embedded programming on TI's MSP430 chips. TI has a free compiler and IDE, so that works out pretty well. I can't discuss what I've used them for but they're pretty easy to program 🙂

Post some more info plz!
I like to do some 'stuff' with a microcontroller.

 

[Pepsi90919]

we had a class built around it

worst class evar

we used a PIC something-or-rather with some custom board and Microchip's IDE

 

[Colt45]

ttt

 

[fbrdphreak]

Got a class in it right now 🙁 Gonna use a PIC 16F848(?) and some other microcontroller to run a remote controlled three-wheeled chassis in a collision avoidance project. Including making our own remote.

<----Won't have any free time shortly 🙁

 

[Colt45]

yeah that sounds like quite the project

 

[Analog]

I've been using the PIC since 1990. I saw someone else say something about the MSP-430. Nice chip, I've used it for a few things, a little quirky, but hey, it was designed in Germany...

I wrote the first published article on using the first PIC C compiler back in '94 for Electronic Design. So you might say I've used it for a while... 😉