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USING MICROCONTROLLERS
by David Merrill

We will be starting with the PIC LOGO environment, with more advanced topics available as sections and on your own. The PIC Logo environment is a way to program a PIC microcontroller without needing to know C or PIC assembly. The way it works is:

- A LOGO Virtual Machine (VM) is loaded into the memory of the PIC microcontroller. This is PIC code that can interpret the simple LOGO language and run the LOGO instructions.
- You can then type LOGO commands directly into the Tower Development Environment program's console, and they will be sent into the PIC, run, and the results will be displayed back at the console, or
- You can make a text file containing your LOGO code, and transfer it into the PIC using the Tower Development Environment.
- In either case you can type commands into the console in order to have them evaluated in the PIC's LOGO interpreter environment.

Here are some resources for these topics:

You can also find much good information on this topic at Brian Clarkson's knowledge base page here.