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the entire microcontroller world is hopelessly obscure with the exception of Arduino and all of the projects that it inspired I dunno, it doesn't seem that bad
by dkersten 15y ago
the entire microcontroller world is hopelessly obscure with the exception of Arduino and all of the projects that it inspired
I dunno, it doesn't seem that bad to me. Cortex-M microcontrollers use the ARM instruction set and seem to be gaining ground. I've personally used PIC24 (the 16bit PIC microcontrollers from Microchip) and various 8bit Atmel ones without using Arduino. The 8bit PIC16 still seems reasonably popular too.
Certainly none are as popular or accessible to beginners than Arduino, but is it really hopelessly obscure? Hell, if I can get started with PIC24, then surely anyone can! (Though I do admit I've started doing prototyping on Arduino lately because the wealth of sample code saves tons of time and headaches, while before the PIC24 was my go-to microcontroller. I have used the AT90USB162 and some Atmega micros for some work too and will probably use them much more in the future).