Agree, for learning and that feeling of knowing more or less exactly what is going on, uc's like AVR, STM8, or MSP430 are hard to beat. It's comparatively simpl

Agree, for learning and that feeling of knowing more or less exactly what is going on, uc's like AVR, STM8, or MSP430 are hard to beat. It's comparatively simple to do things, and almost everything is just a couple of register settings away.