Ideal development board?

Hello

I'm looking for a cheap development board to use as a small part of my final year project. I need to use the GPIOs to read a distance sensor and control a motor at various speeds. I need a package that is all in with programming suite etc and I would like to code in C. However, I need something that doesn't have all the header files etc for all the functions like Arduino does, I would like to attempt to do this from scratch. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Rob

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shabaz over 10 years ago +4

Hi Rob, Most (all?) microcontrollers can be programmed from scratch without relying on support packages of source code from manufacturers, provided you're willing to trawl through their multi-hundred-page…

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0 sunnyiut over 10 years ago

Hello Robin,
I think shabazhas suggested the best way to go for it, if you want to do it from scratch.
However, you said that you need 'a package' and by any means if you are looking for ready-made solution and want to code in C - then you can go for development boards from mikroelektronika.
like -
PIC Clicker [PIC Clicker - Low Cost PIC Development Board supporting Click boards] or Clicker 2 for PIC [clicker 2 for PIC18FJ - Small PIC18F87J50 development board with two mikroBUS sockets for click board]
these boards contain PIC MCU [8bit] and mikrobus socket to connect different modules.
like - DC motor driver click for controlling the motor and light ranger click for measuring distance
you can code using MikroC, and directly program the controller. you can use the example code and the builtin library which will ease the process.
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0 sunnyiut over 10 years ago

Hello Robin,
I think shabazhas suggested the best way to go for it, if you want to do it from scratch.
However, you said that you need 'a package' and by any means if you are looking for ready-made solution and want to code in C - then you can go for development boards from mikroelektronika.
like -
PIC Clicker [PIC Clicker - Low Cost PIC Development Board supporting Click boards] or Clicker 2 for PIC [clicker 2 for PIC18FJ - Small PIC18F87J50 development board with two mikroBUS sockets for click board]
these boards contain PIC MCU [8bit] and mikrobus socket to connect different modules.
like - DC motor driver click for controlling the motor and light ranger click for measuring distance
you can code using MikroC, and directly program the controller. you can use the example code and the builtin library which will ease the process.
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