Hi
I sort of started this question on another page, but I thought I'd move it here so I'm not hijacking someone else's page.
2 questions here;
1: I'm looking to move from using picaxe to Arduino. Can anyone give me any pointers on where to start? (I know this question's probably been asked elsewhere on LMR)
A few days ago I was going to try some programming in C using mikroC. So far I have been able to blink a LED... mikroC is primarily designed to support the circuit boards MikroElectronica makes and does very little for the Arduino (and they plan on keeping it like that). It is still a great (but expensive!) C, just not one for the Arduino.
I know my new robot runs (and runs nicely) on a ZBasic chp, but I will always have a great fondness for the Arduino, the first microcontroller board I ever used. (I used the PICAXE for a while too.)
Right now I have been programming a Arduino Uno with C. I really like the MikroC AVR C from Mikroelectronika. I am using the free version (limited to like 4k, decent space for C programs!). The full version is kind of pricey.
I then use AVRdude (love that name) to send the resulting hex file to the Arduino non-volitile memory. Works great!
If someone can help me out then I will write a tip/walkthough on this subject.
Quite often DAGU products use the ATmega168 MCU rather than the ATmega328 because they are a bit cheaper and 16K of program memory is often enough.
The problem is that ATmel no longer produce the ATmega168 20-AU which we had been using. They now produce the ATmega168PA which is almost identical but has a different device signature ID.
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