Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more

Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by anton_gogolev on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:07AM (#12268792)

ESP8266[0] springs to mind:

> The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by kordless on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:13AM (#12268866)

I messed around with several versions of these and will say they are all sorts of a pain in the ass to get going. The Python stack I was using on them kept crashing when I would put it into power saver mode.

Still, it's pretty cool you can buy one for like $2 and basically have a computer that runs Python with some minimal microcontroller functionality.

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by brokenmachine on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:45PM (#12273120)

I think the software support has improved a lot since I first checked them out about a year ago.

I've only used the Arduino libraries, but I haven't had a problem yet.

Funny that a 160MHz board with wifi built-in can be referred to as "minimal microcontroller functionality" nowadays.

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by kordless on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:25AM (#12273538)

Well, I consider a microcontroller to be controlling something not on board, so yeah. :) It's minimal in that it has two pinouts.

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