John Miles wrote: >> I just bought a book called "making things talk" from O'Reilly. I just >> started reading it. The book looks fine but it appears that most of the >> projects are based on the Arduino line of microcontroller modules and >> they use the processing/wiring language. I am not crazy about learning >> another language or using an IDE that shields me from details I ought to >> know. I can program reasonably well in Python and I can get by with PHP >> and C. I use Linux and am comfortable with it. >> >> Is anyone out there using a similar product that can be programmed in >> Python, PHP, C or another common language? >> > > I'm a strong partisan of the AVR architecture. Cheap, effective, and > supported by GCC. > > Avoid *any* architecture that requires you to buy somebody's proprietary C > compiler. There's no excuse for that. > > -- john, KE5FX > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > I concur with John - but I still have to learn whatever micro 's assembly for the smaller footprint jobs - like pics. When I was 14 I wanted to know how basic worked so I hand disassemble z80 machine code. Now I'm 40 and can still remember that machine code so I'm a little partial to the ez80 series. Tim
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