by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @08:58PM (#48032049)
Imagine what kind of leaps and bounds "hobby" electronics would take if it dropped compatibility for the damn Arduino? Come to the modern age and stop thinking in terms of an 8-bit DIP package dozen MHz microcontroller...
Sure, you may look cool and sound OK tethered to a game machine but in the end you are slapping 4 plastic buttons.
With Guitar Hero, you are stuck just imitating someone else, while at the end of the day the Arduino still contains a programmable microcontroller that can solve new, original problems. I had not used one until about 6 months ago, when a friend was trying to start up a project that would eventually be maintained and expanded by students. He came to me to get a skeleton hardware setup going for demo purposes, as I had plenty of other mcu experience. I had a basic program up and running in less than a minu
What do you think was limiting it? You think someone who wants to design a (say) 15GHz sampling oscilloscope will stop because of the Arduino?
On the other hand, why not use an Arduino? I don't need a 32 bit monster "micro" controller running embedded Linux to flash the headlights on my RC car. I use a bare-bones PIC but someone who is happy with the "get it done" approach of an Arduino, what is wrong with that?
He is using a 32bit monster, its a pic32 device, a chipkit32 clone. Its running an emulation of the io of the 8bit aurduino through wiring. Its not a common of garden aurduino 8bit avr.
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Imagine what kind of leaps and bounds "hobby" electronics would take if it dropped compatibility for the damn Arduino? Come to the modern age and stop thinking in terms of an 8-bit DIP package dozen MHz microcontroller...
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Sure, you may look cool and sound OK tethered to a game machine but in the end you are slapping 4 plastic buttons.
With Guitar Hero, you are stuck just imitating someone else, while at the end of the day the Arduino still contains a programmable microcontroller that can solve new, original problems. I had not used one until about 6 months ago, when a friend was trying to start up a project that would eventually be maintained and expanded by students. He came to me to get a skeleton hardware setup going for demo purposes, as I had plenty of other mcu experience. I had a basic program up and running in less than a minu
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What do you think was limiting it? You think someone who wants to design a (say) 15GHz sampling oscilloscope will stop because of the Arduino?
On the other hand, why not use an Arduino? I don't need a 32 bit monster "micro" controller running embedded Linux to flash the headlights on my RC car. I use a bare-bones PIC but someone who is happy with the "get it done" approach of an Arduino, what is wrong with that?
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you're right, that's way too much computer for typical simple embeded app. a four bit S1C60 should be more than enough in most cases