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Re: The Untold History of Arduino

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Post by voltagex_ » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 6:43 AM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #36

voltagex_ wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wish there was a way to easily mirror it on Android - looks like good reading for a long flight.

The autofile subtree is 49.9MB, the whole site ~660.

After the flight, I took another look and found that the autofile tree is provided as a PDF "book" - https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/afpdf.zip

Re: The Untold History of Arduino

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 11:35 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #71

agumonkey wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The autofile subtree is 49.9MB, the whole site ~660.

After the flight, I took another look and found that the autofile tree is provided as a PDF "book" - https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/afpdf.zip

Brilliant find.

Re: The Untold History of Arduino

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Post by bborud » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 10:12 PM UTC

Genesis stories never match, but there is one thing to learn from many that I have read: if you want a place in the spotlight you have to take it. The value is not created in just making technology, leaning back and expecting the adoring masses to come flooding in the doors.

Creating technology is part of the work, but sadly not the part that makes you successful. To be successful you need to get out and about and get in people's faces.

Re: The Untold History of Arduino

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Post by Nullabillity » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 10:17 AM UTC

analog31 wrote: post #22

Animats wrote: post #21

It's really just an Atmel AVR CPU, which you could buy on a development board before Arduino. Atmel has a tool chain for AVR CPUs, which is a version of GCC, so it's open source.[1] I've developed for such boards without any "Arduino" stuff. The Arduino project put a simplified IDE on the front of that. Their real innovation was social. They built a community around the thing and provided documentation that wasn't ad…

But doesn't PIC use GCC too? Disclaimer: I'm a long time PIC user, going all the way back to the PIC16C84. Long before anything like Arduino came out, I always found Microchip's documentation to be much easier to crack. Of course, I admit to a certain amount of mental inertia and familiarity with the platform as well.

My class just used chipKIT boards (Arduinos with PIC32s inside), and the official tools seem to be based on a forked GCC 4.5. For the labs we used a build of GCC 4.9 that the school had prepared, which also worked fine.