29 Sep
2011
29 Sep
'11
9:04 a.m.
On 09/29/2011 11:54 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
wow kool
Cool, even. ;) *poke*
adrino funny been seen that stuff allot latly
speacialy at my local hacker
space infact never herd of their gear till i joined the hackerspace haha
Yes, Arduinos are pretty neat. They're a good way to get started in
embedded development, I think. The only pitfall is "reaching escape
velocity" from the handholding that the Arduino platform gives you, to
being able to do real designs. But for many people, who just want to
solve a quick problem or build a quick widget rather than start a career
in embedded development, they can be very handy.
One thing that people tend not to realize is that one need not use
the Arduino software platform on Arduino hardware. The hardware is a
pretty generic hookup of an AVR microcontroller, just with a
standardized form-factor and pinout for stackable mezzanine modules.
I've programmed them (just this morning in fact) to the bare metal with
a standard GCC-based AVR cross-compilation environment.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL