General ? about how electronics are programmed

[allenk14]

maybe i should post this here.

I just starting out with C++ and i was wondering how, lets say your house oven, is programmed. What piece of equipment do you need to buy to connect sensors, lets say temperature sensors? Can cant seemed to find any information on this topic.

Can someone point me in the right direction.

Lets say i had a project. I wanted to create my own oven. I have most of the components. I dont have the sensors, and the electronics. I want to program in C++. Is this possible?

[sargon94]

Well, I don't want to put you down but most appliances of that sort are either programmed using hardware (transistor layousts) or Assembly. What you've described IS probably possible however. I have no knowledge as to how to go about it though. sorry.

[Tabian]

They are referred to as embedded systems. Wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system

They typically use a microcontroller (processor with memory and certain I/O functions on chip). They are typically programmed in Assembly or C/C++, (or sometimes a version of BASIC - see BASIC stamp) and often have their software stored on a PROM chip (meaning once programmed it can't be changed).

A very popular microcontroller is the PIC, again wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller

The ooPIC (for object oriented) has an IDE that will allow programming in BASIC, Java, or C.

Hope this was helpful.

[NGen]

See Also: Arduino.