(thing) by earthquake Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:00:24

A "computer on a chip." Usually includes Flash or EPROM, RAM, some CPU core and I/O. Very cool for robotics and any other electronics projects.

I like it!
(thing) by bonnet Thu Apr 06 2000 at 20:02:37
The most popular are the PIC series by Microchip, the AVR by Atmel, and the 68HC11 by Motorola . All have a number of high-level languages (C/Forth/BASIC) for cheap or free and simple chip programmers that can be built for under $10.

If the compiling/burning/testing cycle is too tedious, the Basic Stamp and its copycats offer a more integrated approach.

I like it!

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