[arm-allstar] Why Arduino?

[Michael Durkin]

Because not everyone is going to use a Raspberry Pi. I use an Odroid-X2 as
1/2 of my sdr .... voice, packet & digital.

On Dec 6, 2016 7:43 AM, George Csahanin via arm-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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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