Re:The hotel bathroom puzzle
by fastball on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:44AM
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In the same way, I've seen people involve Arduino's to solve simple electrical automation problems, when they could've just built a fairly simplistic circuit.
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In a lot of cases, using a $4 Arduino clone (or $2 for a Nano clone) is going to be faster/easier/most certain than a $0.50 circuit, especially if you keep a handful of each on the bench.
For one-offs, that seems like a good tradeoff.