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Draff
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Good day to you all,
I'm starting to get interested in making a project which involves using PICs but since I am a newbie at this I want to start by making a PIC blink LEDs like in christmas lights. But upon looking it up on the net I was bombarded with multiple options for "basic PIC programming tools" like arduino, raspberi pi, pickit3, etc. Now since I am just starting and I don't have the luxury of buying multiple tools, I need to know which is easiest, cheapest, and best suited for someone like me. Because as I read about raspberi pi it was, in itself, a built in computer which might be hella pricey for just a microcontroller for sparkly lights. And for the arduino, a comment mentioned that it works only for atmel(i think) PICs, does that mean it doesn't work for regular PICs?
To simplify my current project in mind, I would like to try creating a circuit that plays music and the LEDs would light up in sync with it. I kinda want to try mixing it up a little once I learn PIC programming.
I'm starting to get interested in making a project which involves using PICs but since I am a newbie at this I want to start by making a PIC blink LEDs like in christmas lights. But upon looking it up on the net I was bombarded with multiple options for "basic PIC programming tools" like arduino, raspberi pi, pickit3, etc. Now since I am just starting and I don't have the luxury of buying multiple tools, I need to know which is easiest, cheapest, and best suited for someone like me. Because as I read about raspberi pi it was, in itself, a built in computer which might be hella pricey for just a microcontroller for sparkly lights. And for the arduino, a comment mentioned that it works only for atmel(i think) PICs, does that mean it doesn't work for regular PICs?
To simplify my current project in mind, I would like to try creating a circuit that plays music and the LEDs would light up in sync with it. I kinda want to try mixing it up a little once I learn PIC programming.