Comments on: Arduino MEGA

By: sbbbugsy

sbbbugsy — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:09:53 +0000

Is there anyone that can write code for the Arduino Mega if all the requirements are specified? I am new to this and what I want to do is way beyond my current capabilities; ie – I can make an LED blink, but that’s about it.

By: occam49

occam49 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:46:47 +0000

If you like the Arduino, you should look at the
http://www.zbasic.net/. These boards also use Atmel mcu’s, but supports a much richer basic style language that includes multi-tasking and a huge library of built-in functions and support for h/w peripherals.

By: pburgess

pburgess — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:23:18 +0000

deev: if you haven’t found it already, simply google around for “arduino makefile”, or see this page on the official Arduino site:

http://arduino.cc/en/hacking/commandline

You can then use ckermit or screen to monitor serial I/O from the board.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:34:16 +0000

Just got mine in the mail today. :D

By: Ste

Ste — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:57:18 +0000

Sorry for the spelling errors.

By: Ste

Ste — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:55:52 +0000

I have never used an arduino., but this looks realy good. Unfortunatly it surpasses my requirements and budget.

I read a post which was posted on teh 16:
“Why not try PICAXE? It’s so much cheaper and extremely easy to use.”
This post was more or less ignored by most on this forum.

I find picaxe to be a very cheap and simple for a beginer or itermediate level. True picaxe has some big flaws. But different methods can be used to overcome them.

Put simply:
Your choice of board or chip depends on the requirements you need of it.

So far i havent thought of many projects that surpass the picaxe chips.

By: deev

deev — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:29:20 +0000

What compiler and programmer for the Arduino family that doesn’t rely on Java would you suggest?
I’d like to write my code using vi, then flash it through a simple command that doesn’t require anything unnecessary to perform the flash. I have no need for a debugger as I’m used on other platforms to monitor proglam flow through spare IO pins and/or serial lines.

By: mic

mic — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:04:42 +0000

Awesome streamlined expand ability for a micro controller unit. I love it. Very nice, but I see where your coming from draeath, a compact as possible utilitarian design would be truly awesome. It needs to be smaller, because it can be.

By: Ben from D

Ben from D — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:16 +0000

I’m a photo editor who likes to dabble in hardware… That’s why I enjoy the little arduino. I’m far from a coding expert and don’t have the time to become one. I really appreciate that people have put so many examples out there. I can see where if I had the time to learn it the propeller platform is dam spiffy. My first afternoon playing with it I was able to pwm some leds and a motor and control it with a sliding resistor. Since I was a kid I always wanted to control real world objects with a computer but haven’t had an easy way to do it. That’s why I think the arduino is so spiffy.

-Ben

By: draeath

draeath — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:30 +0000

For something better than a stock arduino, but not over the top like this…

(and without that retarded spacing between pin banks)

Check out the Sanguino.
http://sanguino.cc/hardware

By: NKC Electronics

NKC Electronics — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:58:26 +0000

It is my understanding that the Wiring hardware is copyrighted.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:39:48 +0000

@chris: http://www.wiring.org.co/hardware/images/digitaliopins.jpg – yeah, they do look a lot alike. same board layout, i’m surprised an arduino like this hasn’t been released sooner.

By: Panq

Panq — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:49:33 +0000

Arduino IDE is just avr-gcc with some pre-written libraries. That is to say, you program an Arduino in C, not in something like C.

This is not overkill if you like to have on chip do all your robotics. A relatively simple hexapod has 18 servos (3 per leg). If you wanted to instead have direct feedback from those, you’d be needing 18 analouge (potentiometers) or 36 digital (rotary encoders) inputs. This thing would be very useful for any robot with a lot of degrees of freedom (especially with feedback).

That said, it’s still overkill.

By: pkt

pkt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:26:50 +0000

I’m hoping this will be cheap enough to control some of my robotics projects. I know it might be overkill. I hope it’s not a huge jump to learn ARM assembly after this. Some of my other projects will need something beefy like that.

By: Eliot Phillips

Eliot Phillips — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:51:26 +0000

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