mbed is ARM = RISC. I remember RISC from my days at DEC. For my robocars I chose the Microchip 16F887 because I stumbled upon and bought the PICkit 2 bread board system. Had the PICkit board come with 0.1" centers I would probably stayed with it. Now I use the PIC stand alone and solderless protoboard.

I am afraid to leave Microchip and associated vendors. I bought two UBW32 BITwackers then found that I could not program them with my version of PICKit 2. Also the UBW32 does not come in a 0.1" DIP package. I am also a bit confused where to go for help other than this forum.

Maybe I can stick with PICBASIC PRO if I can teach myself more about doing simple mathematics and array structures for data storage. I surely would like subroutine calls that accept parameters and return values.

Suggestions?

Ken