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C Programming

Brandon WrightBrandon Wright Posts: 5
edited 2006-04-11 05:09 in General Discussion
Is there a Microcontroller out there that will work on the Board of Education that programs in C???· It's the language I'm studying currently and hope to practice it with my Boe Bot

Thanks,

Brandon

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2006-04-08 05:27
    It is an interesting question.

    The BasicStamps don't support C, but there is a 'C-like' version of Java. You might take a look at that.
    It is the Javelin and the IDE is downloadable for free.roll.gif
    To date, it seems that every one that copied the BasicStamp hardware format, also created their own version of Basic to go along with it.
    It seems nobody really wanted to be so Generic.

    In theory, you might be able to 'wipe clean' a processor and if it is supported by C, then you could do your own thing. But that seems a long way to go to get back home.
    It just ain't that hard to learn PBasic and Java is useful too.

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    Post Edited (Kramer) : 4/8/2006 5:30:05 AM GMT
  • Brandon WrightBrandon Wright Posts: 5
    edited 2006-04-09 19:30
    Yea, i've got lots of experience with java so I haven't had much problem in actually program the boebot, but I was just hoping that I could get more experience with C. Oh well, thanks very much for the response!

    -Brandon
  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2006-04-09 23:10
    There are a variety of stamp like processors made by other companies, I dont know if any use C. Anyways they are non Parallax products, so suggesting, or recomending any here would be inappropriate.

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2006-04-11 05:09
    FYI, there seems to be more and more of the bigger players providing a form of Basic for their microcontrollers.

    While is is really good for what it was intended to do, each microprocessor architecture has a different combination of memory allocation, hardware resources, and software resource.

    I think the manufactures are beginning to realize that try to fit their features to C becomes very problematic in terms of good use of the resources and makes it more cumbersome to actually quickly deploy a useful application.

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