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    <p>If we are all going to answer with, hey try this microcontroller I might as well throw in a few:</p> <p>The msp430 has a very clean and simple instruction set, and good tools. at $4.30 you might as well buy the max 3 per order and just have them for a rainy day...</p> <p>www.ti.com/launchpad</p> <p>For about $20 you get everything you need in this one package:</p> <p><a href="http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp</a></p> <p>massively more powerful than the pic or avr for half the price of a normal entry level arduino. </p> <p>There are a couple of pic32 (which is really a mips not the traditional pic instruction set) boards in the arduino price range. </p> <p>I have and like arduinos and cut my teeth on pic's before moving on, dont get me wrong they are fine, have their pros and cons.</p> <p>go to <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparkfun.com</a> to find tons of things, developer microcontroller boards, and perhaps interfaces to the sensor you are interested in, etc.</p> <p>The real answer to your question is not what is my favorite microcontroller or board but how do I use this sensor. When or before purchasing you should have figured that out. You need to research how those sensors are used, what if any sensor specific hardware or circuits are needed, etc. You might find a turnkey package at sparkfun for example or some other arduino shield that just does everything you need. Or perhaps a different sensor type that performs the same function. </p> <p>I am guessing you are going to need to sense current in some form or fashion, do some googling on inductance and inductors. You might want to put a small precision resistor in line with the inductor and measure voltage across it using an ADC in a microcontroller or a standalone adc hooked to a microcontroller or something else. Depends on the precision you need, you might need more than a microcontroller can provide. Which gets into how do I interface a spi or i2c ADC. You might want more than a small resistor to avoid melting down the sensor or circuit...</p> <p>If you dont want this question to be closed and sent to electronics.stackexchange then you need to edit your question and provide a direct link to the sensor you purchased. If it is just an inductor then you have to add more circuitry if it is a full sensor package with a serial or parallel interface (spi, i2c, rs323) then that is a programming question but you still have to then decide on what microcontroller you want and ask how do I do i2c in an arduino for example (of which there are many web pages).</p>
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