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I think a way to bridge Arduino shields up to a normal general purpose computing environment at a reasonable cost (e.g. http://omer.me/2012/05/introducing-ponte
by themgt 14y ago
I think a way to bridge Arduino shields up to a normal general purpose computing environment at a reasonable cost (e.g. http://omer.me/2012/05/introducing-ponte/ http://omer.me/2012/05/introducing-ponte/) will be the true killer app for hardware hacking. Being able to write lua/python/ruby/etc to talk directly to hardware & sensors will be incredibly powerful
There's no way long-term Arduino is going to stay at it's current specs & environment, any more than TI-89 calculators could
- ballooney 14y agoDon't underestimate the usefulness of hard real time io that's easy to implement. It's nice being able to be able to guarantee that some function will run exactly 0.2 microseconds after a voltage hits a pin, for example. Simple micro controllers where you program the bare metal will always have a place for this kind of thing. Doing that kind of thing in python on Linux is a can of worms. But, abstracting away comms between a python script on a pc to an arduino talking to sensors is definitely someone worth perusing, though one is basically there with pyserial and some glue code.