NavSpark: Arduino Compatible with GPS GNSS Receiver • Hacker News Board

Re: NavSpark: Arduino Compatible with GPS GNSS Receiver

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Post by veemjeem » Fri, Jan 17, 2014, 11:32 PM UTC

zellyn wrote: post #38

jwcooper wrote: post #24

Arduino compatible is misleading in a lot of these cases. It usually means it works with the standard library included with the Arduino IDE, but most of the 3rd party external libraries (note...interesting and useful, and almost always necessary when connecting devices/screens, etc) don't end up working without changes to the libraries themselves. Take a look at the amount of work that the Teensy3 community has done…

“Arduino compatible” is often also used to refer to the structure of the pins. This one claims to be “Breadboard compatible.”

is it? the attiny85 is still marketed as being arduino compatible, but with only 6 i/o pins, it is nothing like any other arduino product.

Re: NavSpark: Arduino Compatible with GPS GNSS Receiver

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Fri, Jan 17, 2014, 11:40 PM UTC

return0 wrote: post #33

ChuckMcM wrote: post #18

Cheap GPS, cheap pocket tri-copters, fun fun fun! I really don't care about taco service but it would be nice if I could call someone at home and say "I forgot my under 8 oz item at home" they could attach it to the copter and send it to my 15 miles away at work. Soon, if not already, that will be an off the shelf capability.

I know I have a twisted mind, but I envisioned a quad copter delivering a grenade, a bomb or a shot to the head. Creepy me, I know.

I predict that the first legal consequences will be due to creepsters flying RC with cameras near people's windows.

Re: NavSpark: Arduino Compatible with GPS GNSS Receiver

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Post by mikeash » Fri, Jan 17, 2014, 11:51 PM UTC

zellyn wrote: post #38

jwcooper wrote: post #24

Arduino compatible is misleading in a lot of these cases. It usually means it works with the standard library included with the Arduino IDE, but most of the 3rd party external libraries (note...interesting and useful, and almost always necessary when connecting devices/screens, etc) don't end up working without changes to the libraries themselves. Take a look at the amount of work that the Teensy3 community has done…

“Arduino compatible” is often also used to refer to the structure of the pins. This one claims to be “Breadboard compatible.”

They appear to mean compatible with breadboards (i.e. you can attach pins to it with standard spacing), not some sort of hardware form factor similarity.

"Arduino compatible" refers to the structure of the pins for external accessory hardware, but not for actual microcontrollers, which is what this is.

They also clarify a bit farther that they are, in fact, referring to software compatibility:

    ARDUINO COMPATIBLE

    NavSpark is designed to run Wiring, the same simple code as the Arduino platform. There is no need to learn any new programming language or environment. Your standard Arduino sketches run on NavSpark.