With Scratch or Basic, complex things have a way of turning out complex, but that’s to be expected. If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks.

Embedded systems are primarily computers that have been developed to do a specific task. They are often smaller, more ...

Or maybe it used to be. I learned to program in an interpreted language — BASIC — on computers that were not much more powerful than a $5 microcontroller these days, and there’s a BASIC for ...

In Fig.2 we have the architectural model of a microcontroller basics. The Microcontroller 8051 is one of the most popular microcontrollers in the market. It is a simple 8-bit microcontroller, which ...

You should be able to learn and program in BASIC in less than an hour. In this chapter, we shall be looking at the principles of programming PIC microcontrollers using the PicBasic and PicBasic Pro ...