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Re:The New Altair: Why the Arduino Matters by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday May 22, 2009 @05:39PM (#622769)
90% of everything that I've seen done with the Arduino (that doesn't require portability) can be done with an old PC that has a parallel port and any Linux distro that has gcc.

I'm not dissing the Arduino; I think it's an interesting platform, but it really is overhyped.

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Re:The New Altair: Why the Arduino Matters by ladyada on Friday May 22, 2009 @07:41PM (#622910)
a PC doesn't have analog inputs, cant do PWM outputs, struggles with protocols like i2c, isnt realtime. but it is: loud, hard to enclose nicely, costs more and requires maintenance.
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Re:The New Altair: Why the Arduino Matters by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday May 25, 2009 @09:33PM (#626093)
And none of what you've said falls into the 90% of what I've seen done with an Arduino.
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