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Which Brain for my Robot?

Published in issue 367, July/August 2007

Which Brain for my Robot?

More than any other electronics project, these days a robot can virtually not manage without at least one microcontroller to run it. So of course this raises the question of how best to select one, and this article is here to help you in this delicate task. Although the simplest robots can get by with virtually any type of microcontroller programmed in the language of your choice, as the complexity of the robot increases, it becomes clear that certain ICs are more suitable than others for a purely robotic application.

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