small is beautiful
how to choose a microcontroller » http://www.instructables.com/id/EKRQRQHQDIEWH1IMC9/?ALLSTEPS
PIC series
- the pic-archive has a good collection of docs, projects and links about http://come.to/thepicarchive
- Graphical, PLC-like programming with the PIC16x84 > http://members1.chello.nl/~f.vdburgh/picbit/
- LISP-likes
- Taiichi Yuasa > XS LISP on Lego MindStorms.
- Marc Feeley and Danny Dubé → PICBIT, Scheme on a PIC
- tutorial on using puredata and pics for data aquistion and analysis > http://www.0x09.com/physcomp/
Arduino(ATmega8) development board/ide
- open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and
- a development environment for writing Arduino software.
- Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring(http://wiring.org.co/), itself built on Processing.
- The Arduino board is a cheap (roughly 30euros/board, fully assembled), robust i/o board based on the AMTEL ATmega8
- It has
- 13 digital pins (3 of which allow PWM output)
- 6 analog inputs
- USB and serial versions boards / pcb schematics available.
- Can be interfaced from osx, windows and linux
related
- USB/sensor interface from CREATE > http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/
- the CerfBoard is more a microcomputer, than microcontroller.