A microcomputer has an interface that you can access by plugging it into a monitor of some kind, even a television.

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A microcontroller has no interface, you write a program on a computer and upload just the code to the board. It has the capacity to store and run only one program at a time, but can be reprogrammed as many times as you like.

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