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Truth.
WHAT? The choice was between an FPGA and Arduino?
The platform is nice and all, but really, it’s just a friendly bootloader & board for that very popular MCU.
Now I understand the sudden violent reactions of some people to mentions of “Arduino”, they need to turn the marketing down a notch.
@hn – this is not “arduino marketing” it’s a comic someone made describing how *they* felt about arduino, there’s no excuse for violent reactions to something like that.
Hack a Day would love this… Is it a coincidence that the guy’s shirt has a skull on it?
With the Arduino, you don’t have to worry about programming?
Sure you do, but when don’t you don’t have to worry about programming a microcontroller ?
Yet the Arduino and its many clones out there are great little tools for ‘kicking around’ a circuit or taking care of those late night ‘What if’ moments.
And from my own personal experience it has brought the ‘fun’ back in to this hobby for me.
While I like the Arduino, and have used it several times myself, most modern microcontrollers are pretty cheap, easy to program, and easy to acquire. Arduino is probably *easier* in each of those categories, and is a wonderful tool for beginners or for simpler projects, but it’s certainly not as powerful. And while the Arduino can be fun, I still really love the guts of the Arduino better than the Arduino iteself. Give me an AVR, baby! 🙂