Microcontrollers

[Mattwarne]

Thanks for voting

Matt

[Teknotronix]

PIC Kit 3 is not a microcontroller. It is a programmer/debugger. It comes in a package though with a demo board, but is not comparable to Arduino.

[Mattwarne]

Thanks for that simracer

[westfw]

Arduino is not a microcontroller, either.

[Mattwarne]

Arduino is not a microcontroller, either.

What I meant was dev board

[Psi]

I ticked 'other',
I normally use the ATTiny or ATMega micros as nature intended   (without the Arduino environment)

But it really depends on what you want to do.

- If i need more power i go to a STM ARM micro.

- If i wanted to make something for the hacker community i would use an Arduino.

- If i was mass producing something in quantity i might use a PIC. (They are often more specialized, so it's possible to pick one that only has the features you need and save some money)

[shebu18]

What language do u use for all of those? Declaration and stuff differ from avr to pic.

[IanB]

What language do u use for all of those? Declaration and stuff differ from avr to pic.

Most people use whatever language is provided by the commonly available toolchains and dev environments, which is C likely as not.

[Psi]

Yep, i always use C

I would use inline ASM if i needed to for speed. But that situation hasn't occurred yet.

[shebu18]

And in all 3 IDE's you use C? I am currently learning C.

[ipman]

As far as I know, all 3 are closely related to C, but no one is pure C.