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by joshvm
4071 days ago
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In this case I think the benefits far outweigh the risks. Now it _sounds_ like you're being snarky because I'm not directly supporting Arduino.cc, but my point was that the beauty of open source is that somebody else can produce things a lot more efficiently/cheaply than you can and there isn't one controlling entity. I do own an 'official' Arduino Leonardo, but when you can buy more from eBay for $3, it's hard to justify paying 6 times the price, plus shipping, from Sparkfun. It is certainly cheaper in some cases: the Pro Micros run Mega32U4's which have built-in USB controllers; all you need is a micro-USB cable. I prefer to code for AVR directly for a number of reasons, and Arduino boards make excellent dev platforms once you replace the bootloader with LUFA or something similar. Otherwise a tinyISP is a few dollars from eBay (they're hardly clones, since there are no official suppliers anyway). You get the option of using Atmel Studio although it's Windows-only anyway. I'm really not a fan of the Arduino IDE either, so if Microsoft wants to bring in Visual Studio support they're more than welcome! |
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I'm starting to suspect that you may not be in the primary target audience for Arduino.
>Now it _sounds_ like you're being snarky because I'm not directly supporting Arduino.cc
Yeah, kinda. I don't know you so I'm not really meaning to be too judgmental. I also purchase a few clones here and there, and I encourage others to do so as well.
>It is certainly cheaper in some cases: ...
Those are some good points, but I'll note that they (built-in USB, $3 ICSP doohickeys, etc.) are relatively recent developments; and sometimes beyond the capabilities of a lot of the Arduino's primary audience.