Arduino Dispute reaches out to Distributors

Re:Arduino Dispute reaches out to Distributors by dkhenry on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:06PM (#9283728)

I think the arduino brand will die out and I am kinda happy. Those chips are way underpowered for their price and with the rest of the embedded space really moving towards tiny arm cores and general purpose computers I think the market for the AVR's is going to dry up. Even now I can use a raspberry pi for most of the hacks I was using arduino for.

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Re:Arduino Dispute reaches out to Distributors by szczys on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:21PM (#9283754)

I think it's two different tools. "Underpowered" chips have their use and their place. Why deal with embedded Linux when I only need to twiddle some IO on a simple protocol?

For me the issue isn't the brand dying out, its decentralized uniformity. If the main organization spins into oblivion (when talented people give up because of this turmoil) who will make sure the unified IDE keeps with the times?

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Re:Arduino Dispute reaches out to Distributors by dkersten on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:41AM (#9284526)

There are ARM microcontrollers (Cortex-M{1-4}) - these don't run embedded linux. See, for example, the Teensy 3.x boards.

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Re:Arduino Dispute reaches out to Distributors by Quequau on Sunday March 29, 2015 @11:25AM (#9285126)

I've got hopes that Bunnie's Fernvale project will yield some success as alternative to Arduino

http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Fernvale_Main_Page

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