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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by wiremine on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:23PM (#14851033)
> It's easy to bridge from Arduino to Atmel AVR IF you know how to do board layout.

Design is half the battle: the other half is component selection and manufacturing. If you BOM is way off, you're SOL before you even start, and most people don't get this until it's too late.

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by nerpderp83 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:49PM (#14851270)
This is why you don't design something around an esoteric part, like the only ARM part with 5 Quad SPI ports or a dual time base RTC. If you do, have contingencies for your contingencies, like merging footprints you can have the option to use different IMUs on the same PCB.
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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by e12e on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:26PM (#14853318)
I find the updates for Bunnie's eoma68 fascinating, like how things like a micro-hdmi connector can be a problem:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/274...

(Starting at: "The issue that is of more concern is the JAE DC3 mid-mount Micro-HDMI connector."(...))

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by Kliment on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:15AM (#14853985)
I don't think that's a bunnie project
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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by e12e on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:58AM (#14855403)
You're right, I was mixing it with the laptop project.
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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by wiremine on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:12PM (#14851447)
Of course you're right, but lots of startups and "corporate makers" learn this the hard way.
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