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Dear Pimoroni, Please add a link to your store from your blog. Sincerely, everyone who might actually want to buy from you.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/ EDIT: took 10 seconds to find including this edit, but your point does stand :)
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"other MCs aside from the Arduino that are more interesting today" Can you give a few links? Thanks in advance.
ESP8266[0] springs to mind: > The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266
Still, it's pretty cool you can buy one for like $2 and basically have a computer that runs Python with some minimal microcontroller functionality.
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This is like saying a farm tractor and a pickup truck are the same thing because they both have internal combustion engines and wheels.
One abstraction layer above in fact. It's like saying a farm tractor and a pickup truck are the same thing because they both can move you from point A to B.
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Yeah, but if the farm tractor was cheaper, faster, and could carry more cargo than the truck, why wouldn't you just use the tractor?
AVRs have much better sleep modes (single digit microamps) and predictable performance (to the exact clock cycle) by default. If you need long battery life or hard real-time performance then they're probably a better choice than the Raspberry Pi.
Heck the last time I looked into doing sleeping on an AVR-based Arduino it basically said go look at the 328's manual to set the registers directly. (Although that was a long time ago.)
It is a shame that the Arduino guys split up but I would argue the situation would be even more of a mess if both new companies were able to sell into the same territories with the same name + similar product.
Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I've seen are controlling lights, doors/locks and monitoring water in plants. I don't find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?
we're building electronic noses with gas sensors to monitor fruit ripening and tell us when we should pick fruit trees. arduinos are cool because they make physical computing really easy. they're just a nice tool.
(I've read about gas sensors in the past and it seemed like they are either extremely inaccurate or hideously expensive)
TLDR: Reseller is pissed that "Genuino" has to be sold as "Arduino" in the US and that they have separate SKUs. Also Genuino seems to have poor B2B/reseller support. Is this post really that petty or am I missing something?
Can't sell "Arduino" in the EU because of underhanded legal reasons? Ok, fine, that's life.
Can't sell "Genuino" in the US? I thought this painful brand switch was to fix stupid legal problems?! But Genuino did this to itself?!! screw it
I really don't see the point of the arduinos when you can buy an esp8266 that is arduino compatible (you can use the arduino IDE and sketches). You can get the bare esp8266 chips for $1-$2 from aliexpress, or buy a tricked out one from adafruit (the huzzah) for $9. They have a full wifi stack, support micropython, etc. I think we're in a post-arduino age for microcontrollers. There are simply better options out there…
I've heard stories of people who had built several Arduino projects, but when someone mentioned microcontrollers and working with embedded systems, responded with "what's a microcontroller?"
Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I've seen are controlling lights, doors/locks and monitoring water in plants. I don't find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?
The main reason we used the arduino was compared to all the alternatives (other similar hacker boards, and FPGAS say) it gave us a flexible toolkit, easy deployments to a board, and a very simple way of interacting directly with sensors throuhg a fairly convenient API.
Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I've seen are controlling lights, doors/locks and monitoring water in plants. I don't find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?
Another friend and I created a lighting controller that did realtime signal processing and MIDI-controlled lighting, which relied heavily on Arduino.