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It's funny - I stepped away from electronics when I started college and in the first few years out of it just due to not having enough free time. About a 10 yea
by Teknoman117 4y ago
It's funny - I stepped away from electronics when I started college and in the first few years out of it just due to not having enough free time. About a 10 year period.
I come back and now AVR is old and slow and ARM is hot stuff. All it took was the tooling becoming nearly free. No more $500 ISP programmers, just USB DFU boot.
- sitzkrieg 4y agoyea, usb dfu, better tooling and the price is nearly interchangeable. heck, small PDIPs are sometimes more expensive and less stocked
- Teknoman117 4y agoI remember the first ARM board I got back in like 2008 required some Keil IDE which was >$1k for hobbyists and only had a 30 day evaluation included in the kit. Made by a company called Luminary Micro iirc. Builtin programmer was locked to only work with that specific chip. Never seriously considered ARM for a long while after that.