Hello all,

I'm trying to make an RFID door lock as a personal project, and im looking for a micro-controller that i can connect;
16x2 LCD
Keypad
RFID Module
some sort of motor controller for the door lock

any suggestions/ideas for a micro-controller that i can use that can connect all of these?
note: i don't want to use a PIC

 

Nearly any microcontroller can do this given enough pins.

 

Pretty much any non-PIC microcontroller will do.

 

What is your experience level? Why don't you want to use a PIC? Your answers may help us in answering your question.

 

If you use some more advanced components for lcd, keypad, rfid, such components that use serial communication like SPI or I2C, then you can put all these components on one bus. That way you use very few pins.

 

As has been said, just about any microprocessor can do this job, but I'd go with an Arduino Nano, because it's very cheap and it comes with a USB interface which you can use to program it. No additional hardware required! That's something that the PIC world hasn't caught up to yet.