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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.