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You can buy Arduinos on Aliexpress for USD1.80[1] and there are no comparable offers for ARM boards. [1] aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-Nano-3-0-Controller-
by ju-st 11y ago
You can buy Arduinos on Aliexpress for USD1.80[1] and there are no comparable offers for ARM boards.
[1] aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-Nano-3-0-Controller-Board-Compatible-with-Arduino-Nano-CH340-USB-Driver/2021663360.html
- togusa 11y agoI bought 5 Arduino Uno R3 clones for $2.39 a piece off AliExpress and they were pretty good apart from shitty soldering on the headers. They fill the "can't be bothered to read the 500 page long datasheet" niche for me nicely. I remember having to get along with datasheets and simple programmers and writing PIC assembly back in the 1990s and I'm glad that time is gone.
- kefka 11y agoThat's not true. They are just hidden. Stm8, $1.28 http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32351992629.html http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32351992629.html Stm32, $3.06 http://m.aliexpress.com/item/1568685935.html http://m.aliexpress.com/item/1568685935.html Edit: my phone did a stupid.
- ju-st 11y agoNice! So there is basically no reason to buy Atmega anymore (for me, at least).
- kefka 11y agoThe only reason is network effect. Most "shields" and devices are tested and libraries made easily available for Arduino/Atmel 324P. Going to ARM means having to rebuild some of your toolkit, or finding it. But again, it's ARM. And the "more expensive one" is 32bit.