20 May
2013
20 May
'13
9:32 p.m.
On Mon, 21 May 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/20/2013 10:47 PM, John Wilson wrote:
What are your thoughts on those IDEs for those kinds of things where it's
built with building blocks?
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:03:42AM -0000, Cory
Smelosky wrote:
[RPi]
I agree 100%.
But I think starting there is better than not starting at all. The trouble
comes, just like Arduino, when people won't take off the training wheels.
I really don't know. Once I got mine I
became far, far less excited. Now
it's just been relegated to running on the UPS doing nothing but serving a MOP
image for a DECserver.
I'm afraid these things could give a whole crop of kids totally the wrong
idea about what embedded programming is. Using a familiar platform is neat
because it means you can start from knowledge you already have but running a
full-blown timesharing OS just to control a few blinkenlights or whatever is
morally wrong. -Dave
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