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Re:Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday February 05, 2011 @10:36PM (#2184846)
What was the project? I find that one one problem with beginners to embedded systems is that programmers are now so used to desktop computers with huge amounts of resources that they think too big for a first project.

Not just in terms of memory, but CPU speed, availability of I/O (e.g. Ethernet), languages, etc..

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Re:Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino by TwoBit on Sunday February 06, 2011 @05:13PM (#2186602)
It was a project that needed more than 16K of memory. I read that there are tricks to stream memory in as-needed from outside sources, but that just reminds me of programming in the 80s, which I'd rather not go back to.

I'm not saying Arduino is bad, I'm just saying I was disappointed that it had a bunch of great features yet curiously had such a limited memory capacity. Memory is really really cheap.

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