T&L Publications

Check this site out kronos<p>I have not used his Micros yet but I have looked at his programing books(online pdfs). Looks like a easy to use system and not to costly. Also has some nice looking starter kits.<p>Mike...........

I have a Weller ESD safe iron that has the temp control on it. It works great, It's really nice to be able to adjust the temp of the tip depending on the size work you are doing. If you have your iron set to hot when working on small joints the solder will tend to degrade which can cause cold solder...

I see Microchip makes the PicStart plus and a couple of other programers.<p>What hardware is need to program these pics?<p>Are the programers universal between the different software packages?<p>
Mike................

What is the main difference between the series of pics ie pic18 verses pic16 and so on?<p>Has any one used mikroBasic?
here is there home page if you want to take a look
mikroBasic
Mike........<p>[ January 03, 2005: Message edited by: BlownDiode ]</p>

Hey Guys <p>Who makes the best basic (or C if the learning curve is not to steep) compiler for Microchips Microcontrollers? I am new to programing pics, but have programed in Visual Basic quite a bit so coding isn't new to me. Would like some thing easy to use but powerfull enough to grow with.<p> T...