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Microcontrollers
Microcontrollers come in a variety of different forms, and packages. The most basic ones are single chips, more complex ones are the combination of a single chip micro chip and other support chips.
Single Chip microcontrollers
- Amtel
- Microchip PIC
More complex microcontroller boards
- Arduino - based on Amtel ATMega chip
- Parallax Basic Stamp - based on Microchip PIC
- Parallax Propeller - new chip design, exclusive to Parallax
- PICAXE - based on Microchip PIC
- COMFILE - Cubloc / Cutouch - Amtel ATMega based, some versions come with a touchscreen display.
We've tried a number of different controller boards and personally like the Arduino.