I can highly recommend Don's AVR dev boards. They are well priced and
he gives great service. His web pages are good places to start. As you
have some C programming experience, you could use (for programming
AVR's);
AVRGCC http://www.avrfreaks.com
or
Imagecraft http://www.imagecraft.com/software
as your cross compilers.
For java you could look at
The Javelin Stamp http://www.parallax.com
or
JStamp http://www.systronix.com/jstamp
For an overview on microcontrollers (if you require one), start with
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/microcontroller-faq/primer/
I found good tutorials at
http://www.8052.com
http://www.hkrmicro.com/course/micro.html
If you like learning from books, look for ones by Myke Predko (a
personal favourite), Claus Kuhnel,& John Morton.
Not to mention the vast amount of resources that can be found on the
net.
Regards,
Paul
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