As I sit here, past 3 in the morning, playing with an Arduino for the first time, I find myself thinking...
GOOD LORD THIS IS FUN.
The Arduino folks have this whole thing nailed. The install process (especially for something that involves, you know, buying resistors) was super-easy. The examples seem endless (they have a UDP implementation? Nifty!). The troubleshooting page is relevant and specific. The default environment is so stripped down it hurts, but you know what? I don't care.
This _feels_ like I'm just getting started again, and I'm totally jazzed about it. This whole system is approachable, understandable, and _fun_.
I've programmed an Atmel microcontroller from scratch. It wasn't fun adding all those components together just to bootstrap myself. Luckily I messed with Arduinos before, so at least I knew what I was doing and was getting to barebones of embedded systems.
Still, I would prefer to develop with the Arduino. It's just, such a fun way to get started with microcontrollers.
GOOD LORD THIS IS FUN.
The Arduino folks have this whole thing nailed. The install process (especially for something that involves, you know, buying resistors) was super-easy. The examples seem endless (they have a UDP implementation? Nifty!). The troubleshooting page is relevant and specific. The default environment is so stripped down it hurts, but you know what? I don't care.
This _feels_ like I'm just getting started again, and I'm totally jazzed about it. This whole system is approachable, understandable, and _fun_.