[arm-allstar] Why Arduino?

[George Csahanin]

But as for frying the Pi, that's on the user, not the code writer. I 
have been using the parallel port for ACID for years now, no issues...

Well, can still modify CM108 FOBs as well. THERE's REAL opportunity to 
blow something up...

The Arduino isn't a bad thing, the Nano on Ebay is cheap. 10 for $24, etc...

GeorgeC

On 12/06/16 10:36, "David Lang via arm-allstar" wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, "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?
>
> It boils down to the fact that they are afraid that hooking up to the 
> Pi GPIO pins could fry the Pi if you either wire something wrong or 
> too much RF gets into the wires.
>
> The same thing could happen to the Arduino, but if it does, you fry a 
> $3 module instead of a $35 module.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with their choice, this is either going to work 
> or it isn't. If it doesn't, then frying modules will result in 
> unusable systems (albeit slightly cheaper to replace)
>
> I'm hoping that once they actually release the code (and this release 
> process is far to much like proprietary software to make me happy), 
> I'm hoping that some people will hack it to support the native GPIO 
> pins instead of requiring the external box/board.
>
> David Lang
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