Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
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Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
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#2Re: Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
#3What I liked about the older, simpler Arduino was that you could move an ATmega328p project from an Arduino board to a chip on a breadboard then to a custom PCB with minimal complexity - with just hobbyist-level skills.
But the boards and modules just seem to be getting ever more complex, with lots of tiny SMD components, removing that path.
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#4ISn't this just https://www.sparkfun.com/qwiic or https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-stemma-qt/wh... ?
No, it’s not just QWIC connectors.
It is just the time-honored maker tradition of finding a cool IC and building a dev board around it for the hobbyist. There’s a i2c multiplexer chip, an i2c buffer, and a nicer motor driver.
Article title is nonsensical.
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#5I thought arduino was on everyone's shit lists for trying to go closed source? Did that change?
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#6What I liked about the older, simpler Arduino was that you could move an ATmega328p project from an Arduino board to a chip on a breadboard then to a custom PCB with minimal complexity - with just hobbyist-level skills. But the boards and modules just seem to be getting ever more complex, with lots of tiny SMD components, removing that path.
Robotic pick and place board assembly means through-hole components are going the way of the dodo. Sorry.
Adafruit sells breakout boards for various SMT packages so that with a little solder reflow work you can adapt that shiny new chip to your breadboard. https://www.adafruit.com/category/475
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#7A bit of topic , but I wonder if people who are starting in this field not directly start on esp32 platforms. It's so damn easy to develop with AI on these platforms. In the past we spend a week on lcd drivers alone. Now one can build an entire application that controls other devices via serial, has its own fancy UI, has all kind of useless features like 40 languages, its own webserver, OTA, demo modes and more.
With Arduino I am not sure what you get these days
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#8I thought arduino was on everyone's shit lists for trying to go closed source? Did that change?
Qualcomm still sucks, but there’s not much Qualcomm in this.
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#9What I liked about the older, simpler Arduino was that you could move an ATmega328p project from an Arduino board to a chip on a breadboard then to a custom PCB with minimal complexity - with just hobbyist-level skills. But the boards and modules just seem to be getting ever more complex, with lots of tiny SMD components, removing that path.
Sometimes you get lucky and the smd components have larger packages you can hand solder, but the price for assembly in a Chinese pcb shop is so cheap I don’t think I want to hand solder
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#10A bit of topic , but I wonder if people who are starting in this field not directly start on esp32 platforms. It's so damn easy to develop with AI on these platforms. In the past we spend a week on lcd drivers alone. Now one can build an entire application that controls other devices via serial, has its own fancy UI, has all kind of useless features like 40 languages, its own webserver, OTA, demo modes and more. With…
I just started with esp-idf because I can't stand all the bloat of Arduino/Platform.io/ESPHome. Especially now where working with unfamiliar tech stack is easier than ever.