Alright, welcome to the second tutorial in our simple microcontroller series, where we're
going to show you how to do some pretty awesome things with the most basic microcontrollers
possible and learn a ton of cool stuff while we're doing it.
So in this video, we're just going to go over what we need.
And basically, as you can see here, there's going to be some hardware, and there's also
going to be some software needed to do this successfully.
So first thing that we need is, of course, the microcontroller.
So we are using the PIC10F200.
And you can get that from any authorized distributor onlinecomponents.com, Digikey, Mouser, or whatever.
You can also get it from Aliexpress, but they're not authorized.
So if you get a terrible one, that's going to be up to you.
So we recommend going through an authorized distributor whenever possible.
And if you're going to be making more than one of these just for your own use, definitely
go to an authorized distributor.
But yes, the PIC10F200.
Go get one of those things, they're cheap, probably want to get a couple of them because
it's so cheap, just in case you blow something up in the process.
The second thing that you're going to need is a programmer or debugger.
Now, Microchip makes quite a few of these.
And there's actually also some other DIY ones that you can make if you want we're not going
to go into that but that is an option.
If you're looking at it, there is the PICKit series and the ICD series and basically they
all go from PICKit2, PICKit3, PICKit4, and then ICD2, ICD3, ICD4.
The PICKit4 and the ICD4 are the latest ones.
And that's what I'm using here.
But Sergey, who wrote these tutorials, he actually uses a PICKit3.
And technically, since this is an older microcontroller, you can use a picket too.
So if you already have one of those perfect, you don't need anything.
If you are planning on making millions of these things, then you probably want the faster
and more robust ICD series, but they're way more expensive.
So that's why we're just sticking with the ticket, because we're only using it for our
own tutorials and prototyping and stuff like that.
So microcontroller.
And then you also need the programmer debugger, and then you're going to need the actual electronic
components themselves.
So right now I have the first circuit that we're going to use already set up.
But you can see the things that we're going to need are going to need jumper cables, male
to male and male to female depending on what tutorial we're on.
Right now I'm only using the male to male but eventually will need some male to female
jumpers on there, you can see the microcontroller, obviously, we have some 1K and 10K resistors
for our LEDs.
And also to protect the microcontroller with the switches, we have some push button switches,
and then I don't have on here, but we'll need eventually is a piezoelectric buzzer.
So once you have those things should be good to go.
Also, all the stuff is on CircuitBread.com
so if you don't want to be writing notes quickly, while I'm talking about this, go on, go to
the tutorial, it's linked in the description and just see this list.
So you can go and get exactly what you need to succeed.
And finally, the last two things are one going to be the computer and to the software you
going to run on it.
So Sergey runs on a Windows machine but I have a Mac and you can run Windows, Mac, Linux,
whatever you want, it will work with this. Now the software, you can use the older MLAB
8.76, which is a lot smaller than the newest software, the newest IDE.
But it's still works with this microcontroller.
And it's also a little bit more minimal and a little bit more streamlined in certain ways.
So Sergey prefers using that even though he'll use both however it is Windows only.
And since I run on a Mac machine, I'm using MPLAB X, which is their latest and greatest,
which also works with this microcontroller also should note that MPLAB X, I believe only
works with a PICKit4 and doesn't work with the older ones.
But the 8.76 works with the older ones.
So you need to look at it see what you currently have whatever you can do to save money, pick
it two and an old Windows machine you have and if that's all you need, perfect.
And that's it.
That's really all the hardware you need is the computer these things right here and then
you should be able to move forward, we're going to do a couple of conceptual tutorials.
So if you want to order these things right now, if you don't have them already, that'll
give you some time to review the next couple of tutorials before we actually set it up
and start doing things but that's it.
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tutorial.