The price seems very high for the category.
Arduino's have always been a little pricy for the hardware you get. I think a lot of what you pay for (at least for a regular, non pro, Arduino) is the ease of use and the eco system.
That being said, do you have any examples of other entries in this category that are suitable for industrial / automotive use?
Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
by PeanutNore on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:48PM
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There's little reason to commit a whole Arduino board to a project when you can easily flash the Arduino bootloader onto an ATMega and embed one in your gadget. I think I own exactly two Arduinos: an UNO SMD edition that I use for flashing bootloaders on ATMegas and programming ATTinys, and a regular UNO that I stuck a ZIF socket on that I use to program ATMegas.
Yeah you pay for the hobby convenience of flashing over USB on the regular board which is a nice convenience when you're just noodling around with a project not intended to become a product. (Or doing rough PoC prototypes where iteration speed is important).
Definitely, looks like others are taking note. All of TIs newish launchpads seem to have a built in usb debugger/programmer. Pretty sure that was a direct response to the popularity of Arduino.
Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
by mrguyorama on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:24PM
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Eh, TI has been doing the in circuit programming route on their BASIC Stamp boards since before USB was popular. I don't think they had anything special for debugging though
Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
by dragontamer on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:36PM
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> The price seems very high for the category.
Does anyone else remember when a Keil C 8051 at 20MHz devkit would cost you several hundred dollars for the hardware, and then several hundred dollars for the compiler?
I remember... it was like... what? 10 years ago? Not actually very long ago...
ARM M7 at 480MHz and ARM M4 at 240MHz
2MB SDRAM
16MB Flash
USB, host and device
WiFi
Bluetooth
10/100 Ethernet
MIPI DSI lcd panel
DisplayPort over USB-C (graphics out)
Integrated Li-Po charger
3x ADC 16 bit
2x DAC 12 bit, 1MHz
4x UART
22x Timers
2.95µA in standby mode
That's obviously way too much to come out of the Arduino style pins. There are two 80 pin high density connectors on the back which have everything on them.