On 9/16/2011 9:19 PM, V G wrote:
> No. No one ever said the Arduino is unfit for a particular purpose. The
> whole point of this discussion is about the people that use them and thei=
r
> lack of experience, etc... It's not about the Arduino itself, although it
> has problems of its own.

I think everything has its place depending on the situation. Arduino is=20
fine for projects that are not mass produced or where safety is not a=20
concern. The reason I bring up safety is it would be extremely risky for=20
an EE to use an Arduino in a situation that a bug in the code could=20
cause damage to property or person. An Arduino can still be used in=20
those situations but the EE had better understand how the chip works and=20
how the code executes and not just understand how to use the IDE and=20
libraries . The platform itself is fine and using it for work is fine as=20
long as the person using it understands what lies beneath. My only=20
complaint is when people using it and running into problems refuse to=20
learn why what they are doing doesn't work.  Instead people continue to=20
write code to try to force the Arduino to do what they want , often=20
doing things they shouldn't be doing with the chip and causing it to=20
have hardware errors because they do not understand the underlying chip.

Overall I think the platform shows a lot of promise and it has caused=20
many people to become interested in EE that never would have  without it.

Mark

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