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Hello all! As I'm looking for a new hobby to spend the little time I have, I came across some nifty embedded systems at some mechatronic labs here at school. Being educated as a technical embedded systems programmer, I thought that it would be nice to build some hardware myself. After some thought, I chose a robot as my first undertaking to get into this. Right after I decided this, I found my first problem: where am I going to get all the hardware? Since there are is a lot of crap out there, I must carefully choose my tools. Some of the things I need are:* Microcontroller with C++ compiler
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Hello all! As I'm looking for a new hobby to spend the little time I have, I came across some nifty embedded systems at some mechatronic labs here at school. Being educated as a technical embedded systems programmer, I thought that it would be nice to build some hardware myself. After some thought, I chose a robot as my first undertaking to get into this. Right after I decided this, I found my first problem: where am I going to get all the hardware? Since there are is a lot of crap out there, I must carefully choose my tools. Some of the things I need are:* Microcontroller with C++ compiler
Mouser electronics or digikey will have the servos. As for microcontroller, depends on how much you want to spend. The PIC's and Motorola HCxx will have the cheapest test/eval boards for development and open source or inexpensive compilers. If your looking for more brute force, you can always get student discounts. I.e. ARM risc processor compilers are around $500 for student discount. -good luck
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Mouser electronics or digikey will have the servos. As for microcontroller, depends on how much you want to spend. The PIC's and Motorola HCxx will have the cheapest test/eval boards for development and open source or inexpensive compilers. If your looking for more brute force, you can always get student discounts. I.e. ARM risc processor compilers are around $500 for student discount. -good luck
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Hello all! As I'm looking for a new hobby to spend the little time I have, I came across some nifty embedded systems at some mechatronic labs here at school. Being educated as a technical embedded systems programmer, I thought that it would be nice to build some hardware myself. After some thought, I chose a robot as my first undertaking to get into this. Right after I decided this, I found my first problem: where am I going to get all the hardware? Since there are is a lot of crap out there, I must carefully choose my tools. Some of the things I need are:* Microcontroller with C++ compiler
Look at www.botmag.com You should be able to find a lot of suppliers in there.
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Hello all! As I'm looking for a new hobby to spend the little time I have, I came across some nifty embedded systems at some mechatronic labs here at school. Being educated as a technical embedded systems programmer, I thought that it would be nice to build some hardware myself. After some thought, I chose a robot as my first undertaking to get into this. Right after I decided this, I found my first problem: where am I going to get all the hardware? Since there are is a lot of crap out there, I must carefully choose my tools. Some of the things I need are:* Microcontroller with C++ compiler
Try acroname.com or lynxmotion.com They're not the cheapest out there, but very reputable and have most stuff that you're lookin for. We've purchased alot of our robotics components from them. Of course, there are alot more resources, but it just depends on what exactly you're looking for and where you live.
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Look at www.botmag.com You should be able to find a lot of suppliers in there.
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Try acroname.com or lynxmotion.com They're not the cheapest out there, but very reputable and have most stuff that you're lookin for. We've purchased alot of our robotics components from them. Of course, there are alot more resources, but it just depends on what exactly you're looking for and where you live.
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If u want microcontroller then u get PIC or a 8051 series . that are the most cheap and reliable But later on u can get the damest MC if u have good budget. But i prefer that u get some Kit and then start ur work ,that will be fine and worth the expense :cool: Vikas Amin Embin Technology Bombay vikas.amin@embin.com
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If u want microcontroller then u get PIC or a 8051 series . that are the most cheap and reliable But later on u can get the damest MC if u have good budget. But i prefer that u get some Kit and then start ur work ,that will be fine and worth the expense :cool: Vikas Amin Embin Technology Bombay vikas.amin@embin.com
Hello, Thanks for your information. The 8051 series sounds nice and I have some experiance with them from college. I failed to find a C++ compiler for the board.. :sigh: I'll probably have to get some decent budget for this undertaking of mine and I assume that it is an almost once-in-a-lifetime purchase, so I better do it good. :-D Behind every great black man... ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]