16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
1:47 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 20:30, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
With reference to Arudinos, someone wrote:
...
I never could see the point to those. ?It's much easier just build up
your device using the bare chip. ?If one of the big AVRs, such as one
of the XMegas, it might make some sense in helping to deal with
handling an SMT package, sort of the way the ARM stamps do.
It's the development environment: dead simple, "just works", etc. One
has to remember these are designed to be used by people with NO
electronics experience. And I think that's a good thing. They are
the equivalent of our VIC20s, TI99s, ZX81s. Once you get your
bearings with the "pseudo-c" you can then start more advanced
programming; all without installing IDEs, figuring command lines for
avrdude, bootstrapping, etc, etc.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem