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Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
You are at the mercy of the OS on a Pi.
For somethings that doesn't matter at all, for others it really, really does.
Not trying to troll - just don't know. Why would anybody use an Arduino versus a five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero?
They still need an SD card to function. So, that price is going to double at a minimum.
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What exactly is the "Broadcom proprietary part"?
Wouldn't that be the GPU (VideoCore IV/VI)?
>The Portenta H7 is capable of running Arduino code, Python and JavaScript, making it accessible to an even broader audience of developers. "Here, now you can buy hardware that enables you to hire bootcamp-level devs to do your professional industrial work. That way you can pay non-professional wages for professional-level work!" Stop normalizing putting bloated, heavy languages on embedded platforms.
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I'm doing a hardware selection and after much consideration, I'm picking a 3$ esp8266. I don't see any purpose of Arduino outside education for kids. Makers should use cheaper products/knockoffs at worse.
The ESP8266 doesn't have hardware PWM, and only a single ADC channel, both which can make it unfit for a lot of tasks. That said, it does come with a lot of SRAM and the wifi/bt connectivity is obviously great.
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javascript and python support seem like huge improvements
On one hand I think it's ridiculous to mention these languages for industrial applications. But I've also just spent the past year programming an automated mobile restaurant. We use a traditional PLC for everything safety or time-sensitive, but everything else is JavaScript. We're planning to use even more JS on the next-gen system. Details are in my profile if you want to help, or if you want to convince me otherwis…
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I would have thought that the real competition was the ESP32. It stays in the microcontroller space (no OS to manage, should stay lower power, etc.), dirt cheap, ships with wifi+bluetooth.
I'm doing a hardware selection and after much consideration, I'm picking a 3$ esp8266. I don't see any purpose of Arduino outside education for kids. Makers should use cheaper products/knockoffs at worse.
Either way, the ESP's are an incredible value (I use both).
Looks 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).
Those SMT32H7s are some beefy cores. Colocal M7 and M4. Lots of fun, compact deep learning work going on for those chips. Same with NXP's RT1000 series.
Why wouldn't you move to the existing STM32 ecosystem instead of sticking with Arduino for pro/industrial applications?
Most of Arduino's value proposition is easy programmability by non-professionals, with a vast library of examples. Cheap and powerful STM32 boards have been around for years about as long as arduino, supported by a number of free toolchains. But the care and feeding of said toolchains and libraries requires a lot more technical knowledge than Arduino's ecosystem.
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Those SMT32H7s are some beefy cores. Colocal M7 and M4. Lots of fun, compact deep learning work going on for those chips. Same with NXP's RT1000 series.
... In theory, if you could debug your code. The debugging capabilities on Arduino boards are unfortunately basically inexistent compared to traditional MCU dev boards. Hardware is great I agree though.