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Re:The RP2040 Stamp by elcritch on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:19PM (#30816232)
Note that the price of a genuine Arduino UNO is essentially funding the development of the Arduino IDE and open source tooling and documentation. Pretty clever really, since few like to pay for ide or dev environment. The Arduino ide isn’t fancy but it helped spur change in the embedded world.
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Re:The RP2040 Stamp by makomk on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:46AM (#30818751)
Nearly all of the stuff that makes the Arduino interesting comes from places other than the Arduino company itself, though - even the IDE and the user-friendly Arduino libraries that ship with it were basically just copied from the Wiring project. Their ports to microcontroller architectures other than the one Wiring was based on have also been kind of poor compared to community-developed and third party ports.
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Re:The RP2040 Stamp by eternityforest on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:23AM (#30818413)
It's definitely worth supporting, they are the best thing to happen to embedded in a long time.
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Re:The RP2040 Stamp by RicoElectrico on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:23PM (#30816579)
The actual Uno (i.e. AVR-GCC) toolchain I wouldn't expect to change a lot. But they do have a habit of releasing a crapton of boards on different uC archs.

And the libraries are written mostly by 3rd parties.

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