I currently have everything from ATTINY9 and 10 chips in SOT23-6 packages, to ATMEGA328Ps and PBs and their Chinese LGT8F328P clones to ATMEGA2560s, some STMs, some PICs, some Raspberry Pis, and some ESPs of various flavors. There are also Py boards in there and some that I don’t even remember.
I mostly work with AVRs and ESPs but the brothers I work with who own a small custom electronics business use PICs so they have been encouraging me to branch out.
I had been using BascomAVR to program the AVR chips but following the author expiring the license I had paid full price for for asking questions in the forums I have switched to Great Cow Basic. It can compile to a large number of MCUs, not just the AVRs so I’m expanding my repertoire.
Are you new or experienced? What MCUs and microcontrollers do you use? Which ones are you interested in? What languages do you program them in? Which IDE do you use? What projects are you working on?
Test post because I’m pretty sure lemmy.world to lemmy.ca doesn’t work yet. But… maybe they fixed the bug today?
I’m just AVRs myself. I don’t think “branching out” to PIC is the right idea, as both AVR and PIC are from Microchip. Granted, its a fine company, but I would assume that the point of branching out is to minimize your dependency on one company?
STM32 is probably the other microcontroller that hobbyists use that’s actually a new company entirely. They’ve got good products, though they tend to be a bit more expensive (ie: $5 to $15) rather than the $1 to $2 chips that AVR and PIC aim at.
Replying to my post. Now that lemmy.world is updated to 0.18.1-rc4, does federation of posts work towards lemmy.ca??
Success! Okay, looks like my old comments aren’t going to be federated until someone replies to them. Well… there’s Lemmy glitches for ya. Lets hope federation works smoother as the software gets updated!