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Originally Posted by DJBecker
You'll likely find the Arduino hardware easier to start with.
The Arduino boards use the Atmel ATMega AVR processor family, the same type as the Cougar. You won't need most of the hardware on the Cougar board, and the Cougar firmware will run on any of the Arduino boards with only a few minor changes.
The bonus is that there are many plug-in "shield" and "module" boards for Arduino cards, so you can often do projects just plugging them in rather than doing modules.
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THANKS DJ!
I was thinking of the Arduino because I saw a shield that would read an SD card (and give me some memory for variables like ramp-up speed, and maybe even thermal cutout time)
'course I could also use it to do something *Really* stupid, and make it "self-reprogram" I.e. if I should make changes to the code, simply name it something specific. then the old program could write the new one to the microcontroller! kinda like firmware revisions.
I think this could be marketable...
