I like it! I don't need another project right now, but I think it is a neat concept. I am going to have to test drive it for myself to be sure. It appears to be a development board that is inexpensive that can be embedded in a final project in a practical fashion. The mechanical layout with the user project as a physical layer (aka "shield") permits an efficient package for a finished product. It seems to lend itself well to working out the details of interfacing real world components. There are many places to find information but I don't know of any that are as credible as PICLIST. I suggest the ADMINS give some consideration to an [AR] tag. If that seems to overload the current Moderators then assign a volunteer to that tag alone. IMHO, the current moderators (Referees?) are doing a good job of keeping the ball inbounds. John Ferrell W8CCW "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." -Edward R. Murrow ----- Original Message ----- From: "William "Chops" Westfield" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [EE] Arduino > > On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Walter Banks wrote: > >> Arduino may be an important step to moving code generation for >> embedded systems from abstracting the processor details with C >> to abstracting application details. > > Yes. Although I suspect that Arduino's biggest departure from "normal > programming techniques" is in abstracting away the whole concept of > "ports and registers and bits" into mere "pins", so that would-be > users don't have to understand binary. And I can't see that really > catching on in the technical world ("There are 10 kinds of > people...") It's also pretty expensive (20 to 50 times slower than > direct manipulation of constant register bits.) Though not so > expensive as an interpreter... > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist