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

Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by pjc50 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:43AM (#12269145)

Arduino (the platform) has been to amateur electronics what BASIC was to home computing in the '80s. It's the platform with a user community and a huge number of example projects, that lets people learn easily with early results and a minimum of time and cost investment.

The toy projects are a journey, not a destination. Compare them to all those people typing in listings for Breakout games in the '80s computer magazines.

It's also a means of doing "IoT" home automation and monitoring without getting locked into someone else's surveillance ecosystem. I have a Raspberry Pi reading my electricity meter, for example.

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by voidz on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:49AM (#12269203)

How does it read your electricity meter?

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by pjc50 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:06PM (#12269366)

I implemented this project: https://github.com/pjc50/emon-server

The meter has a (standardised) red LED that flashes once for each watt-hour. The Pi has a phototransistor that turns flashes into a GPIO transition interrupt. I've put it on my solar panel generation meter, and plan to build another (slightly improved) unit to monitor the mains input meter.

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by exhilaration on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:31AM (#12273405)

Very nice, I've got a modern electric meter but had no idea this was possible.

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