Hi all
Mnemonics are as clear as mud to me, C is in the same class so I want to go with PICBasic.
Have a very limited (3rd world) budget so I have to be carefull.
Any suggestions for a GUI that will <B>WORK</B>, is easy to set up and will talk to a PICKit 1 board and is preferably freeware?
I do a lot of programming (VB6, ASP, PHP, MySQL etc) and I want to start controlling things outside the computer. (Today a machine, tomorrow the world! ;>) and I've sussed out that the easyest way would be to use a PIC as an intermediate communications device.
I've also realised that by using one of the bigger (40 pin) PICs, I may not need the computer at all. I see learning to read from a memory stick in my future somewhere.

Anyway, must get the programming GUI, compilation software and program flash app and hardware working first so if there is anyone available to mentor me thru this rather daunting process, I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks for reading this post.

All the best