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Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by vachina »

phoehne wrote: post #42
tylergetsay wrote: post #20

Espressif has been eating their lunch, the boards are way more capable and much cheaper. Why would anyone pick an Uno over an ESP32?

They're more fun. The programming is easier (although you can get an Arduino like experience on a ESP32). They have 5V options, which make some projects easier without having to add additional components. The ESP32 API (and the Pico for that matter) are better suited professional programmers. An Arduino is better if you're doing something and want a quick, easy, simple to program controller. It started as a way for a…

Ain't fun spending $40 for a 'fun' project. ESP32 is like a dollar for WiFi and GPIOs. That's fun.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by chimpontherun »

geerlingguy wrote: post #36
nic547 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

STM32 MCUs are 3V3, not 5V right? Arduino really isn't great with naming, a Uno can be an AVR or ARM based board, now either 3V3 or 5V based and also a SBC rather than just a MCU.

I think to Arduino, Uno just means 'Uno form factor, with shield pins in the same place'

Which is kind of sad, since the Uno pinout is horrible for high-speed signals

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by the__alchemist »

fidotron wrote: post #28
tylergetsay wrote: post #20

Espressif has been eating their lunch, the boards are way more capable and much cheaper. Why would anyone pick an Uno over an ESP32?

The fact we don't have viable western competition for Espressif is likely to become far more of a headache than all the angst about AI GPU production. Where can you get a half decent microcontroller with wifi integrated on it? Espressif. All the others are flat out bad in some very important dimension, which isn't to say the Espressif products are perfect, but they fit in the important ways.

Yea... ST, Nordic etc have been sleeping on the Wi-Fi, letting Espressif corner that market. They both now have standalone Wi-Fi ICs, but no MCUs still; and it took them a while to release the ICs.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by phoehne »

chpatrick wrote: post #29

ESP stuff is so damn cheap and capable now I'm not sure what you would use Arduino for these days.

Don't look at just the specs. You also need to look at the board design and programming environment. I've used the ESP32 native tools and they are a lot more complex than Arduino. But I'm an embedded firmware developer, so it's kind of what I expect. But I used an Arduino, with 5V tolerant outputs, to light up Halloween costumes for years. I do it in 1 page of code that's I write in their IDE. I don't have to set up an SDK. And the Arudino API hides all the details I don't care about. Especially if I'm really just slinging solder and wiring something up quick.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by suyash »

the__alchemist wrote: post #49
chpatrick wrote: post #29

ESP stuff is so damn cheap and capable now I'm not sure what you would use Arduino for these days.

Community inertia / maker content.

It used to be that but since Arduino and Pi have both gone full commercial, it's not longer viable. I teach kids coding and have been looking at alternatives like ESP or other boards that are much more cost effective and friendly for beginners.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by vachina »

webdevver wrote: post #4

theyre going to push "AI on the edge" and "IoT" nonsense again absolutely unbelievably cooked. anyone pushing that nonsense, short with leverage. low latency connectivity + goliath data centres will always beat on-device inference/training.

> "AI on the edge" and "IoT" nonsense again.

I love it when my device stays dumb (or at least connect-local) and not become abadonware 6 months after release because the cloud provider felt it a chore to keep running.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by dboreham »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #41
KeplerBoy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

privacy is a thing people care about.

> privacy is a thing people care about. Sadly, it seems that privacy is something that HN readers care about, but precious few others. Look at the success of Facebook. The covers have been off that stinker for years , yet people still regularly use it; often to the exclusion of more traditional media. I have quite a few friends that I don't get invited to their occasions, because they only advertise them on FB. They…

There's a commercial version of privacy. E.g. Company A doesn't want to send their data to Company B (a competitor) for processing.

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by healthymomo »

webdevver wrote: post #4

theyre going to push "AI on the edge" and "IoT" nonsense again absolutely unbelievably cooked. anyone pushing that nonsense, short with leverage. low latency connectivity + goliath data centres will always beat on-device inference/training.

tf are you on. just look at meta display glasses. it s all on board compute

Re: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

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Post by echoangle »

phoehne wrote: post #55
chpatrick wrote: post #29

ESP stuff is so damn cheap and capable now I'm not sure what you would use Arduino for these days.

Don't look at just the specs. You also need to look at the board design and programming environment. I've used the ESP32 native tools and they are a lot more complex than Arduino. But I'm an embedded firmware developer, so it's kind of what I expect. But I used an Arduino, with 5V tolerant outputs, to light up Halloween costumes for years. I do it in 1 page of code that's I write in their IDE. I don't have to set up…

You can program the normal ESP32 Devboards with the Arduino IDE.
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