arduino

Rust has been crammed into the Arduino Due, which may become a good approach for embedded work.

The Arduino SDK makes it very appealing to those involved in building physical marketing materials, e.g.

It was 2 digital IO ports, and also a serial connection if you want to connect it to an arduino.

Cleverly optimizing out the arduino or adding a fancy SBC to the mix are great suggestions.

Yeah I bought an Arduino and some parts, but never got past the first bug robot build.

A bit of Arduino magic and a few minutes alone with an unlocked car (or locked but otherwise vulnerable) and that wired port could become wireless.

$99 is about the same you'd pay for an Arduino + WiFi, and that doesn't include battery, display etc..

I see this as a very affordable board in between Arduino and RaspberryPi.

I always like seeing how other people connect their arduino to the internet.

Also have experience with arduino and rPi.

They also have Arduino libraries and tutorials.

Then HR will discard your resume when you apply for a embed system or other non-php related job, because you got nothing marked with it on your past experiences (even if you had worked on some arduino on your freetime).

Then the word went through transformation and today may easily mean "an Arduino hacker who made an automated bird feeder", "a RoR hacker who made a homepage with it etc.".

There's a question of whether one day you will be able to just "git pull 'terminator' " and install it on a cheap drone with an Arduino to pull the trigger on a mounted AK47.

A good introduction, but a couple simplifiers: 1) You can read a photocell directly from a PC without an Arduino.

Arduino has way more developers because it was orders of magnitude easier to program.

There's the Tessel, a JS-powered hardware platform similar to Arduino.