[ELECTRON] Arduino.

[James Beeley]

I've been using Microchip PICs, programmed in assembler, for quite a
while. I chose the PIC initially as at the time it was one of the few
EEPROM-based processors and hence could be erased/reprogrammed without
the need for a UV eraser box. Free compiler/simulator software and being
able to build a cheap "No-Parts-PIC Programmer" programmer helped too.

This worked fine with Windows 98, but the home-built programmer is
incompatible with Windows XP, so I upgraded to the USB-based Pickit2
Debug Express programmer. This, as the name suggests, supports very
handy in-circuit debugging on most PICs. I've also started programming
in C, via the Hi-Tech C compiler, also under Windows.

I'll doubtless have a look into Arduinos in due course, and also want to
get the PicKit programmer running under Ubuntu.


Jim