Arduino Tre or Beaglduino? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2013, 08:27:30 pm
content: Arduino sitting on basically a beagle board?http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/toolsinsider/archive/2013/10/03/introducing-arduino-tre.aspx?hootPostID=ffa3ae85033164a2321de149533e9346

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2013, 08:35:47 pm
content: Can't afford it, I'm saving money for a jet-powered lawnmower.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2013, 09:03:59 pm
content: Yeah. Arduino prices are getting up there.

author: Avi
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 08:33:59 am
content: The idea is kind of ridiculous. You have a fast processor there, and yet the most advanced thing you can do with it is use it though an operating system as a backend of something running on your standard slow 8 bit microcontroller. if you NEED an operating system, ok, it MAY be feasible, else, if you want a fast highly capable microcontroller, especially with precision timing, this isn't the board for you.

author: GeorgeHahn
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 09:30:24 am
content: Can't decide - is this arduino fighting to stay relevant or beaglebone fighting for a larger market?

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 01:00:30 pm
content: The *duino fad israther ridiculous...

author: casinada
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 02:23:52 pm
content: Linear technology have a clever version:http://www.linear.com/designtools/linduino.phpit is the fastest and easiest way to test some of their products.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 08:30:08 pm
content: Now, someone make a nice PRU compiler and ditch the atmega

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 10:49:13 pm
content: The ATMega is basically pointless now if you're going to go this far. You might as well make a ATMega Daemon running in the background that is tied to real pins on the Sitara processor. Basically a completely software based ATMega that you can compile arduino natively and flash hex files into it.

author: TMM
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 07, 2013, 11:26:33 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on October 03, 2013, 08:35:47 pmLol, couldn't have put it better myself.Quote from: Stonent on October 07, 2013, 10:49:13 pmNot really. I have an Arduino Due but it mostly sits in a drawer because i rarely need to do something that the Mega can't. The Tre can't really be seen as a direct competitor anyway.

author: GeorgeHahn
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2013, 01:57:02 am
content: Quote from: casinada on October 07, 2013, 02:23:52 pmFanciest *duino in existence?Quote from: senso on October 07, 2013, 08:30:08 pmWoah, searching for PRU lead me to discover that the BeagleBone Black has a PRU. This is amazing, thank you.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2013, 02:15:38 am
content: Quote from: amyk on October 07, 2013, 01:00:30 pmI've at times look for good ways for my laptop to communicate with the outside world - like what is the temperature? like did the door bell ring? What is the power draw on my attached disk drive? Those simple task (for an ADC) will stump the best typical laptop out there. But that is something that the Arduino UNO can do out of the box. I found that rather fun to play with.This *duino fad may be ridiculous in some sense, but then that is nothing new. Even when Apple2 was "state of art", that mindset exist. There were a lot of self professed experts: "I'm an expert because I know how to connect a joystick to the machine."This *duino fad is inviting in that sense. It allows less techno-capable people to do something with MCUs. Nothing wrong with expanding the audience, but if just because a particular kid can "buy a shield to do X" and he thinks he is an expert already, well, that is his lost.Perhaps that is the part that makes *duino seem ridiculous. Reading this and other forum, I can see that the idea of "knowing how to buy a shields and download the library and then self-perceive as expert" is not an uncommon thinking.Proverbial "Frog in the Well". It is with technology, it is with arts, it is with literature, it is with life, and it is as old as human history. I am no less guilty of concede than those I accused. We all like to perceive what we do is better and what we know is more.

author: Shale
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2013, 07:27:58 pm
content: Seems to me like they are forgetting the point of the the arduino. Needs to be small, and cheap. If they want to be better, then make them cheap enough to leave in projects and a little turnkey solution.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2013, 07:40:46 pm
content: Quote from: Shale on October 08, 2013, 07:27:58 pmI now more see an Arduino as an AVR breakout board.So the process is like.1. Quick and dirty sketch to make sure the project is working.2. Rewrite in AVR C and test on a bare AVR chip.3. Try to squeeze it into a Tiny chip.