[arm-allstar] Why Arduino?

[George Csahanin]

Makes me wonder the same, wish I were a programming guru, so I defer to 
the upper pay-grades.

GeorgeC
W2DB
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On 12/06/16 10:17, "Thor Wiegman via arm-allstar" wrote:
> The Arduino thing sounds cool but it leaves me with a question:  Why 
> use an external microcontroller for this instead of the Raspberry Pi's 
> GPIO?
>
> I've been hacking and slashing on the simpleusb channel driver (I'm 
> not a programmer, what I'm doing is ugly) and had planned just to use 
> the GPIO pins for COR and PTT.  But the Arduino project makes me 
> wonder if I'm missing something.  If its not possible, or not 
> advisable, to use GPIO for this then I'm going to waste a lot of time 
> and feel really stupid.  Again, I'm not a programmer so I'm sure 
> there's something I'm not understanding.
>
> Thanks
> Thor
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