Luckily we are still very early in our project that we can make drastic changes. Although we have already programmed our 2 Freescale micro-controllers to communicate wirelessly, we may look into switching to the ATmega328 micro-controller housed on the Arduino Duemilanove. The Freescale MCU may have more functions, pins, and faster speeds, but our project does not require a lot out of the MC to begin with. The Arduino has a large (largest?) following in small to large electronics projects with much support from fellow engineers and developers. After viewing the language (based on C++) that the Arduino uses, it seems very user friendly and very easy to learn. In contrast we were using straight forward C++ on the Freescale. There are many prebuilt libraries that we can use for the Arduino that we can make our programming a lot easier to do.
Looks complex. I need to get back to C++ one day.
ReplyDeleteArduinos are always a good choice. Handy dandy stuff you got there.
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ReplyDeleteI keep hearing about the arduino things. I need to look into them and see what a complete noob can do.
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why not assembler?
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ReplyDeleteOur previous major was Game and Simulation Programming which everything was done in C++. So it is just what we know and what we are comfortable with.
Arduino is pretty cool stuff, I saw a really good documentary about it a few months ago that was really interesting.
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These prebuilt libraries, are neat!
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