Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
blog.arduino.cc
Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
1–10 of 201 posts
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#2Interesting, there has always been a large chasm between "Hobby" grade MCU boards like Arduino and "Industrial" grade systems. Hopefully this shift can get more people through that chasm into productive applications.
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#3This has been a major gap for Arduino for a while, and it's cool to see them take a crack at solving it.
Beyond the hardware, I'd love to get some more details on the software tool chain and their plans to sell/support turning the prototypes into production modules.
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#4Not trying to troll - just don't know.
Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#5Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
Determinism
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#6Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
Reliability across power cycles or brownouts, for one.
Cost is another - sure the dev boards are expensive as compared, but the chips used are easier to integrate with your own designs than building an rPi into them.
Just different use cases, in essence.
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#7Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
Not a bad question at all. The Arduino offers you the ability to code on a lower level, while the Raspberry Pi is giving you a full operating system. Some projects, especially IoT, don't need all the overhead of an OS with and without that comes improved reliability and better understanding of the state of the device.
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#8Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
In an industrial environment price is usually less relevant, or even irrelevant. Reliability is key here.
Downtime of a machine can quickly rack up huge costs, so you want to spend extra on hardware that can resist greater temperature ranges, vibration, radiation, magnetism, moisture, etc.
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#9Looks like they're finally using a top-of-the-line MCU, the STM32H7. Very nice.
Unfortunately I don't see how this is a significant improvement otherwise for industrial uses, where the biggest barrier for custom components is certifications (FCC, UL, CE, ATEX, etc).
Re: Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
#10Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
Arduino is a microcontroller, made for realtime. Like a stepper motor vs a normal DC motor