Re: Need advice: want to enter the Embedded field

I'd take some of your money and buy some development kits. You can get
a PICDemo board with theri hockey puck debugger for pretty cheap
(www.microchip.com). If you want, spend some extra bucks on a C
compiler for it. Or you could go the similar AVR route (www.atmel.com).
There's probably tons of 8051 and 68HC11/2 boards as well. ARM is
common for higher-end embedded systems. Pick a CPU and start working on
small projects.

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