I have spent a little time with the compiler & docs and I think that it is a nice entry product but too limited for one who has tsted the 18F PICs. John Ferrell W8CCW "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." -Edward R. Murrow ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ferrell" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [EE] Arduino >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 > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist