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Re:A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor by dancek on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:46PM (#18016844)
That's pretty much true, but I have to nitpick a bit. Arduino tends to mean an 8-bit AVR chip, say ATmega328. That's actually not very low-power and things get difficult once you need just a tiny bit of performance.

Luckily there are alternatives so you can choose the right tool for the job.

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Re:A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor by floatboth on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:11PM (#18017087)
Yeah, the most common boards (cheap Uno/Leonardo clones on eBay/Aliexpress) are AVR, but newer Arduino boards (M0) are based on Cortex-M cores, and there's things like the ESP32 that can be used with Arduino IDE…
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