What is a good mirco-controller?

I am currently using a Motorola 68HC11 series. It uses assemble language, it doesn’t have very much resources, and its old. I used it for class, but I want something maybe a little more...newer. I want something that I can find in a dev kit, uses an actual code language (C maybe), and inexpensive.


What do you people use/like/don’t like?

What is a good mirco-controller?
it really depends on what you are going to do with the micro. if its fairly basic stuff, then you can use 8 bit micro's, otherwise you need to use much faster and powerful ones like the powerQuicc.





I have only dealt with the intel based 8 bit micro's, and in that type there are several manufacturers like atmel, philips, cygnal, etc.. Keil makes a pretty good C compiler for them too.
Reply:I haven't done a whole lot of micro-controlling programming, but from the little experience I do have, pic micro-controllers seemed to be the best thing to try. You can get c - compilers that will allow you to put the program onto the chip. Hope this helps.
Reply:How about programming your 68HC11 in C?





The tools are even free. Download gcc for 68HC11.