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I'd be interested in seeing statistics on how well Arduinos that aren't compatible with shields sell. In my opinion, Arduino's biggest contribution to making i
by tmuir 13y ago
I'd be interested in seeing statistics on how well Arduinos that aren't compatible with shields sell. In my opinion, Arduino's biggest contribution to making it easier to get started in embedded development has been shields and the compatibility they bring.
Code can be shared easily. Users can debug others code over the internet. The same cannot be said with hardware, at least to the same degree. Schematics and the physical implementation of a circuit are not the same thing. Having the peripheral hardware on compatible PCBs fixes that problem.
- dippyskoodlez 13y agoI have 3 digisparks and really love them for a quick space saving design, but it's definitely not new user friendly. For this though, I'm more interested in the OLED screen than the Arduino.
- hershel 13y agoHave a look at circuits.io. It's a platform for collaboration and sharing of complete design: schematics + pcb's a modules, with plenty of shared modules.
- drdaeman 13y ago> Arduinos that aren't compatible with shields sell You mean, bare AVRs? ;) (And a separate USB-to-UART and AVR ISP devices, as one-time purchase or even DIY project. Actually, I use Arduino solely as those two and do all prototyping - including MCU - on a breadboard.)
- e12e 13y agoWell, I have a hexbright if that counts...: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/527051507/hexbright-an-open-source-light https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/527051507/hexbright-an-... http://www.hexbright.com/ http://www.hexbright.com/ https://github.com/hexbright/samples https://github.com/hexbright/samples