18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
12:26 p.m.
In article <C4B7BE84-6ED2-46D0-9D5C-F4975022014D at gmail.com>,
David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> writes:
Of course that works both ways. All the Arduino hacks won't help if yopu
don't know them. Or if you don't have an Arduino board to hand.
Personally, I have plenty of 555s (and other common ICs) and no Arwduinos
True. All the clever 555 hacks in the world
don't matter if your
product doesn't ship on time.
...or if you don't know the "clever 555 hacks".
Visibility of arduino in the hobbyist space is HUGE. While the 555
has been around a long time and has it's own "hacker" tradition built
around it, for whatever reason it isn't visible in the current
hobbyist community.
In 2 years of running a make group, people talk about Arduino all the
time. I don't recall anyone ever having mentioned the 555.
That is _exactly_ the problem I am referign to. For some odd reason these
pre-build microcontrolelr goards turn up everywhere whereas using simpler
compoentns, albeit ones you ahve to sodler together yourself, have been
forgotten.
I am not sure which is easier to learn and then to design with. Certainly
I know that _I_ can design quite a complex circuit and have it soldered
up long bewfore I could write the code (in any language) to do the same
thing. But that's probalby becuase I've been doing that for 30 years or more.
-tony