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These days I don't think Arduinos are meaningfully more accessible than, say, an ESP8266 or ESP32. If I was starting a new hobby project today I'd choose the l
by stackghost 10mo ago
These days I don't think Arduinos are meaningfully more accessible than, say, an ESP8266 or ESP32. If I was starting a new hobby project today I'd choose the latter.
- jxdnnd 10mo agoDon't the latter require separate board support in the Arduino IDE? That was at least the case in the past
- Liftyee 10mo agoThat's only if you're using the Arduino IDE though, and it's so commonplace that instructions are widespread. Many are using MicroPython/CircuitPython which are independent from Arduino.
- xxs 10mo agoesp32 with 'free' (built-in) wifi/bluetooth is just so much easier to work with. That was my experience a few years back.
- askvictor 10mo agoThe first esp8266 I bought was as a dedicated wifi chip for an arduino (or something) project. I discovered after getting it, that it came with a 'free' MCU (that was default flashed with a UART/AT-command firmware to allow other MCUs to get wifi)
- xxs 10mo agofunny indeed, as the add-on card (esp8266) is a lot more powerful than an Arduino.