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+⧖Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others. For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/. >where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or parts digikey.com mouser.com arrow.com newark.com >but that's too expensive aliexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites) lcsc.com >I need a part that does X and Y, with Z specifications. How can I find it? use DigiKey's or Octopart's parametric part search. Then purchase from one of the sellers listed above. >how do I get started with microcontrollers, where should I start? There is no defined starting point, grab a book and start reading or buy an arduino off ebay/amazon and start messing around. There are a plethora of examples online to get started. >resources: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics >RISC-V microcontroller list: https://codeberg.org/20-100/Awesome_RISC-V/raw/branch/master/RISC-V_MCU_development_boards.pdf
Here we discuss microcontrollers (MCUs), single board computers (SBCs), and their accessories, such as Atmel mega and tiny AVRs (Arduinos), PICs, ARM boards such as blue/black pill STM32, ESP8266/32s, RP2040, Raspberry Pi, and others. For general electronics questions (power supplies, level shifting, motor driving, etc.) please ask /ohm/. >where can I find verified quality microcontrollers and other electronic sensors or parts digikey.com mouser.com arrow.com newark.com >but that's too expensive aliexpress.com (many parts here are fake, particularly specific parts out of stock in the above sites) lcsc.com >I need a part that does X and Y, with Z specifications. How can I find it? use DigiKey's or Octopart's parametric part search. Then purchase from one of the sellers listed above. >how do I get started with microcontrollers, where should I start? There is no defined starting point, grab a book and start reading or buy an arduino off ebay/amazon and start messing around. There are a plethora of examples online to get started. >resources: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics⧉ >RISC-V microcontroller list: https://codeberg.org/20-100/Awesome_RISC-V/raw/branch/master/RISC-V_MCU_development_boards.pdf⧉try the RP2040/RP2350 C/C++ sdk. it's a VSCode extension so it takes like 30 seconds to install their debugger just werks, and costs like $12. or try a pico with debugger firmware if you're cheap
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