Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by sgillen on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:47PM (#21983174)

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?

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by PeanutNore on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:48PM (#21985308)

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.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by rtkwe on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:45PM (#21983929)

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).

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by sgillen on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:00PM (#21984130)

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.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by mrguyorama on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:24PM (#21985057)

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

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