A good choice for you would probably be Lazaruz, which is essentially a free version of Delphi. My 'claim to fame' was writing the worlds first Windows PIC programming software, long before MicroChip ever did any, and I wrote it in Delphi 1.0 moving on from my earlier Turbo Pascal version.
It's pretty easy to program PIC's, you just wiggle pins up and down, but why limit yourself to low voltage?.ĭoing it with a processor (like the Arduino) makes it even easier, as it's far easier to 'wiggle pins' on a micro-controller than on a 'modern' PC - old PC's DOS and upto Win3.1 were fine, but after that things got more difficult.
