Daily Deal: The 2017 Arduino Starter Kit and Course Bundle

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Learn how to master Arduino with the 2017 Arduino Starter Kit and Course Bundle. You get the ARDX Arduino Starter Kit, which pairs a detailed, illustrated guide with all the parts you need to build your own circuits. Perfect for beginners, this kit requires no experience and teaches you to use Arduino to control lights, buzzers, and more. The $75 bundle also includes access to 9 ebooks and 15+ hours of instruction designed to help you master working with Ardunio.

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DannyB (profile), 2 Feb 2017 @ 12:33pm

Arduino can't run a full blown OS
If you want to blink an LED, then a Raspberry Pi is the way to go!

Or, use a full blown tower PC with a serial or parallel port. It is possible in software to control the output of one or more pins of a serial or parallel port in order to blink an LED.
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Anonymous Coward, 2 Feb 2017 @ 1:18pm

Re: Arduino can't run a full blown OS
But this one looks like it comes with the LED built right onto it. No wires! That makes the LED wireless!
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Anonymous Coward, 2 Feb 2017 @ 1:33pm

Re: Arduino can't run a full blown OS
It is a horses for course thing, where a Linux machine is goof for computational tasks, and Arduino is a better choice for control application, or any other machine programmed at a bare metal level. That is why £d printers are dominantly controlled by Arduino, or Arduino derivatives,. The more sophisticated ones add a Linux machine to run networking and sling, bt hand the G-code interpretation over to an Arduino
Also, and Arduino is cheaper for simple control projects, even when a some form of networking Interface is thrown in. Further, the Arduino is easier to program for simple tasks, as you do not have to deal with the complexities od a multi-user operating system.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 2 Feb 2017 @ 2:23pm

Re: Arduino can't run a full blown OS
But it can manage microsecond-level response, which the π cannot.

The two are intended for operation at very different levels of the control stack, as an engineer would appreciate.
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DannyB (profile), 3 Feb 2017 @ 6:16am

Re: Re: Arduino can't run a full blown OS
Yes, that is true. A Pi to run higher level powerful abstractions. Micro controllers like Arduino to manipulate the physical world. Connect them all together with I2C or other means.

But on the other hand . . .

In 2030, if you want to blink an LED, it will take terabytes of code, including an Arduino emulator in interpreted python on Linux in another emulator. It will be the only option on the market for blinking an LED. But hey, it will be in a SOT-23 package, draw nanoamps, and cost five cents.
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DannyB (profile), 3 Feb 2017 @ 6:18am

Re: Re: Arduino can't run a full blown OS
True. The integration of the blinker chip, crystal oscillator and LED onto a single board sure beats separate components such as a 555, an LED and a couple other parts.
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Justin Rodriguez, 2 Jul 2018 @ 11:58pm

The $75 bundle also includes access to 9 ebooks and 15+ hours of instruction designed to help you master working with Ardunio. http://happyroomonline.com
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