Chapter 38Using the PICAXE
Microcontrollers have become the favorite method for endowing robots with smarts. They’re single-chip computers complete with their own input/output ports and memory. They’re programmed from your PC, and, once programmed, they can be disconnected from the PC and operate on their own.
As detailed in Chapter 35, “Understanding Microcontrollers,” they are available in two basic flavors, referred to in this book as low-level programmable and integrated-language programmable. These loosely defined terms relate to the programming of the controller.
The PICAXE series of microcontrollers are among the better known, and most widely used, integrated-language programmable devices available today (another is the BASIC Stamp, detailed ...
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