Re:When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be t...
by rhinoceraptor on Monday June 20, 2016 @04:05PM
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Why would you learn to program an arduino? Sure it has some practical uses, but in most cases what you can build yourself is not better or cheaper than commercially available products.
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Re:When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be t...
by Grishnakh on Monday June 20, 2016 @05:22PM
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That's easy to answer: there's all kinds of things that you might want to do which can't be done exactly right with a commercial product. With an Arduino, you can program it to do exactly what you want.
If it's an extremely small niche application and there is a commercially-available product, it's likely far more expensive than the Arduino because of supply and demand. And it probably still doesn't do exactly what you want.