What's really amazing is that for less than $5 nowadays you can have a 1GHz+ quad core ARM Cortex-a53 with FPU and NEON support. I mean, sure, your entire device will be more than $5, and it'll be kinda power hungry at 3W or so running full tilt, but that's a pretty beefy chip for the price of a venti Starbucks latte, capable of running full Linux, with GPU, media encode/decode, etc, etc.
Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
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#22Can any of these be programmed with Rust?
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#23Can any of these be programmed with Rust?
Seriously curious about this. If not these ones, what other microcontrollers have decent or better rust support? Is there a list somewhere? I'm keen to have more practical uses for my rust skills so I can enjoy using rust without having to find excuses to use it where I would be more productive with other languages.
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#24I tried "best microcontrollers reviewed", "best low-cost microcontrollers", "survey of microcontrollers", and a bunch of others. Nothing that Google finds in the first 10-20 hits is as good this resource, other than Wikipedia, though very good, isn't a technical review.
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#25["amazing", "\$1", "microcontroller"]. HN, you really know how to make me click a link within no more than 20 ms from seeing the front page.
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#26The waybackmachine link didn't work for me, but this did: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
The waybackmachine link didn't work for me either. Thanks for the new one.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure that doesn't exist. I've had my site in the front page several times and I never had a problem. I agree I'm a competent sysadm and there's a peak on visits often in a short period, but my server is not as optimised as it could be and it did just fine. I think what we have here is a server or a web app poorly configured.
HN Managed to kill the uplink of my provider...
HN doesn't have that much traffic, your provider is probably crap
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#28> And even if it were properly executed, I think I reject the underlying goal of this strategy. The whole purpose of using an Arduino UNO form-factor is to support Arduino shields — yet I have never seen an Arduino shield on the desk of a professional engineer or advanced hobbyist. At least, not one plugged into one of these “Uno form-factor” dev boards.
I have to chime in. What's the point of using the UNO form factor if you don't support the shields, libraries or the environment? It makes completely no sense.
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#29Was it running the website?
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#30good information