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GarethC
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For a microcontroller, or just programming windows applications?
Messugga
Honorary Master
Notepad++ for dev'ing. There are specific compilers for the various different brands of MCU though. Atmel has AVR Studio, which is a pretty comprehensive, free IDE. For PIC I've always used Mikrotik, but it's not free.
GarethC
Well-Known Member
Which microcontroller? Most microcontrollers (that I have worked with) have their own IDEs to aid programming their controllers. These generally have all the libraries pre-installed. In general these can be downloaded for free.
Although technically, I guess as long as you have the libraries loaded correctly, you can use any C ide?
CraZee
Well-Known Member
Use MPLAB for PIC micros. Tons of documentation and easy to use
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/i...E&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/i...E&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002
GarethC
Well-Known Member
If you're just starting out, as several people have mentioned, the Arduino is probably the best. Very easy to get running, you buy a prototyping board, which means you get a working microcontroller with necessary components all soldered together. The Arduino Uno can be bought for R250 (excl).
The Arduino Software can be downloaded here And if you search around there are many tutorials, covering everything from flashing an LED to robots to whatever you can imagine.
bdt
Executive Member
You may find the House 4 Hack guys helpful ..(somewhere in)Pretoria to Centurion is likely doable, yes?
xera
Expert Member
MPLAB X, the editor is much better than v8, as it's based on Netbeans.