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As I sit here, past 3 in the morning, playing with an Arduino for the first time, I find myself thinking... GOOD LORD THIS IS FUN. The Arduino folks have this
by trjordan 15y ago
As I sit here, past 3 in the morning, playing with an Arduino for the first time, I find myself thinking...
GOOD LORD THIS IS FUN.
The Arduino folks have this whole thing nailed. The install process (especially for something that involves, you know, buying resistors) was super-easy. The examples seem endless (they have a UDP implementation? Nifty!). The troubleshooting page is relevant and specific. The default environment is so stripped down it hurts, but you know what? I don't care.
This _feels_ like I'm just getting started again, and I'm totally jazzed about it. This whole system is approachable, understandable, and _fun_.
- ilovecomputers 15y agoI've programmed an Atmel microcontroller from scratch. It wasn't fun adding all those components together just to bootstrap myself. Luckily I messed with Arduinos before, so at least I knew what I was doing and was getting to barebones of embedded systems. Still, I would prefer to develop with the Arduino. It's just, such a fun way to get started with microcontrollers.
- noonespecial 15y agoI started with MC6811's typing MOV AX,BX. It was like a tiny Manhattan project just to blink an LED. How I envy you.
- gridspy 15y agoYeah, and to write and read a byte of data from an SD flash card - woah!