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Oh Nice! They are finally delivering on what I feel was the great promise of the Raspi in the beginning. Full linux install in the size and price of a micro (re
by noonespecial 11y ago
Oh Nice! They are finally delivering on what I feel was the great promise of the Raspi in the beginning. Full linux install in the size and price of a micro (read: Arduino).
Some people are bound to gripe about the "lack" of ports but its not like this one displaced the A or B models. Its just another spin of the concept where you don't have to pay for expensive physical parts you don't need. Its a linux server at a price cheap enough to buy one for each little project you want to do and then leave it there. Makers rejoice.
I've got to hand it to the Raspi folks. They've really done an outstanding job creating their product line and getting it out to the masses. When they started, there was nothing but a sea of vaporware and "next-year" promises in the inexpensive SBC linux world. I rather famously doubted them at first. I am very happy to have been wrong.
- melling 11y agoThere is a great new USB standard for this form factor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Type-C https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Type-C It needs to reach a tipping point so the price drops but we're probably only a year away.
- DHJSH 11y agoI have no idea why Arduino is so popular--it has NO debugging support unless you use an ICE. (People "debug" with printf statements.) We use Netduinos because with .NET we can single step and inspect variables in live code.
- duskwuff 11y agoWhy is Arduino so popular? Brand name recognition, a decent standard library, and a ton of sample code and tutorials online. I agree that it's not a great platform, though. I personally prefer STM32 these days; it's dirt cheap (a basic development board is <$5) and powerful (72 MHz / 20 KB RAM / 128 KB flash on one of those boards). I believe there's even a way to integrate it into the Arduino IDE nowadays!
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoIME Arduino is so popular because it's so cheap. I can buy Arduino ProMicros on Alibaba cheaper than I can buy the Mega168 MCU itself. And that's not counting the PCB, additional chips or board.
- jandrese 11y agoArduino is popular because it was the first one that got big and built up a community. It's the same reason the RPi is so popular despite not being especially compelling from a pure spec standpoint. You can get more performance for less money with other boards, but you'll have to figure out a lot more stuff on your own.
- dpweb 11y agoBuy magazine, get a free computer. It's a pretty good time to be alive.