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What are the beginner microcontroller chips now? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by boo@lemmy.one to c/electronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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I used to play around with 8051 variants and 8pin/16pin PICs back in 2010, whats the equivalent beginner chips now? I have been out of touch since around 2012, except for pi3/4.

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[–] mamarguerat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can find a lot of different dev boards with ESP32, like the one you mentioned. There is other with camera, e-paper screen drivers, smaller footprint (Xiao ESP32). The simplest way to program is using Arduino IDE, but I prefer using PlatformIO on VScode. GCC would work. The interface is with the USB port, which is used for COM port or for programming

[–] kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The easiest way to program it would be using something like Esphome. I think Node Red is another tool that greatly simplifys things, but I haven't had the time to mess with it yet.