Re: A steal for Arduino Experimenters
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Mornin' Joel:
Agree 100%. The CAT people do need the interface and the reason I push that more than the non-USB versions is because much of my work is done with people who don't have much (any?) programming experience and the familiar USB connector lowers the hurdles in their minds. After I put JackAl to bed, I'm going to do a project with the new Protoneer board, which is about the same size as the Nano, but with a 3x clock and 32K of SRAM.
Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 10:11:53 AM EDT, Joel Caulkins <caulktel@...> wrote:
Jack,
You are so right about the clones. My first was a authentic Arduino UNO that I bought from Radio Shack for 30 bucks, (so I've paid the tax), now I have maybe 40 clones of all flavors including a dozen plain ATmega328PU chips for building directly into my projects. When you get right down to it, a Arduino is nothing but a 328 chip and a 16Mhz crystal and a couple of 22pf caps, (overly simplified I know). I also agree with Jerry about using Pro Minis, it's not necessary to have all that USB circuitry sitting there running for a occasional firmware update when you can just plug a USB TTL Serial adapter in, do your update and remove it. Of course this wouldn't work if you needed CAT control, I don't. That Banggood kit is a great deal for getting started building Arduino projects.
Joel
N6ALT
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