Sunday, November 1, 2009

Bascom an awesome development tool for avr


hi

i have been working with micro controllers for more than 4 years now. the one thing that i always missed or rather i would say i lacked was a simple and fast development software that was simple and removed all the obvious settings from the user and made the selections on their own without reducing any functionality in the code.

This software i find is very good for beginners those who want to learn the basics of programming simple bots and learn how to manipulate timers, counters, registers, memory or any other interface like I2C or usart. In Bascom its just a piece of cake i must say. The built in modules are amazing and very comprehensive.

the only disadvantage that is see is that the programming is in BASIC or beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code so that makes it loose a little functionality provided you are going to develop code for advanced image processing algorithms etc. But if you are a newbie who just want to make a line follower or a micro mouse work then this thing rocks. With the proper guidance you could make your own micro mouse in 12 hours even if u at the beginning had absolutely no idea of what is what when it came to robotics!.

you can download a version form here bascom but do check for a more recent version it might help.

regards

aditya singh baghel
CEO workshop india

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