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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike
The trade off is that they're much more difficult to work with than the Arduino so I wouldn't exactly recommend them for absolute beginners.
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Not sure I would agree - I think the range of the family of pics is amazing as you say. Microchip provide a free development ide for assembler or C and other companies produce BASIC compilers for those who don't fancy assembler or C.
There are tutorials for both processors and many examples on the web. I've never used an Arduino but from what I see it seems to be more expensive than pics and there is a lack of ICE tools for debugging.
I'll stick with the pics.