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The whole thing is a sham really when you consider the heritage from the Wiring/Processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform) https:/

by snarfy 10y ago

The whole thing is a sham really when you consider the heritage from the Wiring/Processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform) Arduino is a commercial version of somebody else's academic work.

brianobush 10y ago
Yes, but in the end they did promote a cheap, easy to use platform something that the processing guys didn't quite achieve.
- nameless912 10y ago
  > Cheap I wholeheartedly disagree. A TI launchpad dev board is sub-10 dollars in bulk, and an ESP8266 (which is almost incomprehensibly more powerful and has built-in WiFi) dev board is 15-ish. And both of those have nice friendly Arduino wrappers. There's really very little reason to buy vanilla Arduino anymore other than the somewhat larger community.
  - spraak 10y ago
    Do you have any links to where to get started with the boards you mention? Shops, community etc?
    - nameless912 10y ago
      TI launchpads can be bought direct from TI. I don't have a link handy. As for the ESP8266, Adafruit sells a board called the HUZZAH ESP8266. For both, the best resource in my opinion for environment set up/build system is platformio (platformio.org). It exposes an Arduino-style API for both boards, so basically the arduino docs will get you 95% of the way there, and the community sourced libraries in platformio will get you the rest of the way.
  - brianobush 10y ago
    A typical hobbyist doesn't need to buy in bulk. When I started with Arduino when it first came out, I never heard of TI launchpad series. So Arduino was first to the show. As a side: in my simple projects, not one has ever needed Wi-Fi; especially when considering power consumption.
kaffeemitsahne 10y ago
>Arduino is a commercial version of somebody else's academic work. How is this a sham? The wikipedia page you link even says Wiring is LGPL (and thus allows commercial/proprietary use).
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  Well, I guess the point would be that the whole Arduino/Genuino vs. Arduino spat is about who "owns" Arduino. Which is kinda ironic given it's an open source product built from someone else's original work.

by snarfy 10y ago

brianobush 10y ago

Yes, but in the end they did promote a cheap, easy to use platform something that the processing guys didn't quite achieve.

nameless912 10y ago
> Cheap I wholeheartedly disagree. A TI launchpad dev board is sub-10 dollars in bulk, and an ESP8266 (which is almost incomprehensibly more powerful and has built-in WiFi) dev board is 15-ish. And both of those have nice friendly Arduino wrappers. There's really very little reason to buy vanilla Arduino anymore other than the somewhat larger community.
- spraak 10y ago
  Do you have any links to where to get started with the boards you mention? Shops, community etc?
  - nameless912 10y ago
    TI launchpads can be bought direct from TI. I don't have a link handy. As for the ESP8266, Adafruit sells a board called the HUZZAH ESP8266. For both, the best resource in my opinion for environment set up/build system is platformio (platformio.org). It exposes an Arduino-style API for both boards, so basically the arduino docs will get you 95% of the way there, and the community sourced libraries in platformio will get you the rest of the way.
- brianobush 10y ago
  A typical hobbyist doesn't need to buy in bulk. When I started with Arduino when it first came out, I never heard of TI launchpad series. So Arduino was first to the show. As a side: in my simple projects, not one has ever needed Wi-Fi; especially when considering power consumption.

kaffeemitsahne 10y ago

>Arduino is a commercial version of somebody else's academic work. How is this a sham? The wikipedia page you link even says Wiring is LGPL (and thus allows commercial/proprietary use).

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
Well, I guess the point would be that the whole Arduino/Genuino vs. Arduino spat is about who "owns" Arduino. Which is kinda ironic given it's an open source product built from someone else's original work.