Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1

Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 2:41 PM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #151

ashark wrote: post #111

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Sometime around the housing market crash (though unrelated, I assume) Google seemed to give up on fighting spam sites and just harshly down-ranked anything that's wasn't an ultra-high-traffic site. A little while later (2010? 2011?) their search got much "smarter" and it became difficult to impossible to trick it into giving you less-popular results using well-crafted searches. A big (and very good!) chunk of the web…

One other thing I've noticed, and it's been happening for a few years. Is that somehow, magically, there are websites out there that have the exact combination of my search results in their title. Almost as if Google forwarded my search to some party which then went ahead and created a dummy "proxy-search" site with the exact heading, and whose body just contains their own results for the same search criteria I used.

Post by ketsa » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 3:35 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #61

etiene wrote: post #47

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Yea, I was hoping to see it there on the comparison list. I guess it fails some criteria.

It fails the "only" criterion (it costs more than $2.20, whereas the author had a strict $1 cut-off precisely stating that a huge field opens up above that price range.) Fom "the rules": >While some projects that come across my desk are complex enough to require a hundreds-of-MHz microcontroller with all the bells and whistles, it’s amazing how many projects work great using nothing more than a $1 chip — so this is t…

Post by ketsa » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 3:42 PM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #103

Well at this point all I would like to get is a USB-powered linux in a card, with wifi, optionally with a screen capable enough to display 3 or 4 lines of text. I mean raspberry is cool, cheap and everything, but I'd prefer something all integrated, as small as the raspberry pi zero, less fragile (meaning I can put in my pocket or bag, and still expect it to work), not necessarily with pins. I don't know about what t…

Post by tomcam » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 7:22 PM UTC

fermienrico wrote: post #186

abetusk wrote: post #55

The most relevant part for me is this cherry picked line from the article: ... Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot. ... Even though the Atmel AVRs aren't the fastest, or cheapest (in cost per unit) or the toolchain isn't the easiest to use or the debugging capabilities aren't as good, the fact that it's open-source makes it win, hands down. There…

ESP8266 and ESP32 trumps AVR in every respect, including their openness.

Post by qkls » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 8:11 AM UTC

qznc wrote: post #91

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #80

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This article is remarkable because there is typically very limited accessible blogs about topics like this. This long article requires in-depth knowledge of a large number of microcontrollers, and the time, desire, and ability to verify, collate, and summarize all that information. That's a rare combination. An ordinary journalist could not write this article. It would take hundreds or thousands of hours to gain the…

> This long article requires in-depth knowledge of a large number of microcontrollers, and the time, desire, and ability to verify, collate, and summarize all that information. So, Google needs to train its AI to recognize this instead of relying on PageRank. We still need page rank to measure authority, though. Otherwise other AIs will soon mass produce content which looks like it "requires in-depth knowledge of a l…