I have wanted to start playing with micro controllers for a while now, I ended up selecting the Parallax Propeller chip because of its ease of use and I liked it’s COG design with 8 32 big cores working together.
My first test was connecting a 4×20 line LCD and a few DS18S20 1-wire temp sensors to the propeller chip. Everything was very easy to learn the LCD was interfaced with no external components and the 1-wire bus only required a 4.7K pull up resistor.