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Re:An award-winning LCD with an Arduino built-in (using only... by StavrosK on Friday January 31, 2014 @08:55AM (#7156610)
Okay, how do they run that color picker sketch with only 2 KB of RAM available on the Uno? I tried to do some string parsing and it failed at 200 byte-long strings due to lack of memory, how can they show an entire picture composed of thousands of pixels?
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Re:An award-winning LCD with an Arduino built-in (using only... by Timmmmbob on Friday January 31, 2014 @01:43PM (#7158328)
Could be a more powerful ARM Cortex, rather than the insanely out-dated Atmel chips. If anyone ever makes a 5V ARM processor Atmel will be finished.

Also I'm going to rant about Arduino for a bit: Yes it's very simple and easy to get started with, but their API documentation is bad, and the IDE is objectively and irreparably awful and has not really improved since it was first released. Making things even worse they don't provide a decent way to integrate it into other IDEs because lots of the build logic is tied up in the IDE.

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