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Re:Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 by neya on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:25AM (#15634747)
I've had the best overall experience using an ATTINY85 [1]. It almost serves my purpose for every use case I've had in the past couple of years - Running steppers, basic home automation, wireless, etc.

If you buy them in bulk, you can get it down to less than $1 per MC. [2]

You can even install Arduino libs on it and the Arduino interface has quite good support for it as well.

Some of my projects with it include a DSLR camera slider [3], wireless home automation (turn off lights when I'm not in the room, communicate with my air-conditioner to maintain the room temperature using IR, etc.)

[1] http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATtiny85

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-ATTINY85-20PU-IC-MCU-8BIT-8KB-...

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/1AscllHDQ0/?taken-by=discovery.d...

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Re:Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 by kirillkh on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:35AM (#15634775)
Do you just use development boards with these? And which ones?
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Re:Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 by DSMan195276 on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:55PM (#15637849)
You don't really need a dev board for these, you can just stick them in a breadboard and go, they're already in a DIP package and don't really need any extra circuitry besides what you're going to connect them to. You can also program them using basically any other micro-controller you may have, or use a cheap USB programmer to do it, so they're pretty cheap to get started with (Though it's not exactly as user-friendly as plugging an Arduino into USB).
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Re:Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1 by neya on Monday November 06, 2017 @07:10AM (#15634896)
The AT Tiny can be programmed with an Arduino Uno, which is what I used. It's pretty easy. But there are also cheaper boards specifically for the AT Tiny.
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