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Re:ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM by ju-st on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:20AM (#10365762)
You can buy Arduinos on Aliexpress for USD1.80[1] and there are no comparable offers for ARM boards.

[1] aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-Nano-3-0-Controller-Board-Compatible-with-Arduino-Nano-CH340-USB-Driver/2021663360.html

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Re:ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM by togusa on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:23AM (#10365776)
I bought 5 Arduino Uno R3 clones for $2.39 a piece off AliExpress and they were pretty good apart from shitty soldering on the headers.

They fill the "can't be bothered to read the 500 page long datasheet" niche for me nicely. I remember having to get along with datasheets and simple programmers and writing PIC assembly back in the 1990s and I'm glad that time is gone.

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Re:ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM by kefka on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:33AM (#10365816)
That's not true. They are just hidden.

Stm8, $1.28 http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32351992629.html

Stm32, $3.06 http://m.aliexpress.com/item/1568685935.html

Edit: my phone did a stupid.

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Re:ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM by ju-st on Saturday October 10, 2015 @01:07PM (#10366120)
Nice! So there is basically no reason to buy Atmega anymore (for me, at least).
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Re:ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM by kefka on Saturday October 10, 2015 @01:32PM (#10366200)
The only reason is network effect.

Most "shields" and devices are tested and libraries made easily available for Arduino/Atmel 324P. Going to ARM means having to rebuild some of your toolkit, or finding it.

But again, it's ARM. And the "more expensive one" is 32bit.

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