[arm-allstar] Why Arduino?

[David McGough]

And, this is very true as well! ....Using a Nano in technical terms
provides an "abstraction layer"....So, you could (in theory) plug a Nano
into a PC or the next future SoC board that comes out and it just 
works---no AllStar driver changes needed at all.

73, David KB4FXC



On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, "Michael Durkin via arm-allstar" wrote:

> 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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