| ▲ | bombcar 5 hours ago |
| Familiarity - it’s easy for us Linux dweebs to build a pi that can flip an LED, but programming an arduino is an entire new area. |
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| ▲ | jfim 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's pretty trivial to do so on Arduino though. void setup() {
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);
delay(1000);
}
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| ▲ | KPGv2 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well first you have to learn the Arduino programming language. And the stdlib. | | |
| ▲ | numpad0 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | They don't call it C++ because that sounds too difficult. But it's literally, not like a simplified subset that compiles into an IL using a formally proven tool, but as in literally compiled using GCC as, C++. | |
| ▲ | jfim 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's C++, and basically what Arduino gives you is int main() {
setup();
for(;;) loop();
}
As well as a GUI to easily flash devices and view the output from the serial port, as well as import libraries that do all of the hard work like say making a serial port on any microcontroller pin or control external devices like light strips or displays.I'd assume the average user on HN should be able to figure it out pretty easily. | |
| ▲ | grogenaut 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | it's literally the hello world of micros. get an arduino, plug it into the usb, install the ide, new -> example -> 01. Blink. Press Run. Cool you have now blunk a led. Now use AI to draw the rest of the owl. | |
| ▲ | telotortium 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good thing LLMs exist now |
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| ▲ | saidinesh5 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| With micropython or some of the js based frameworks for microcontrollers, it's really not that new/different.Especially with ESP32/Pi Pico W/their clones... In fact it's a lot more straight forward to not have to deal with Network Manager config files or systemd unit files or read only rootfs headaches of Linux world. |
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| ▲ | NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| asking as a casual non-poweruser... how does one do that on linux exactly? |
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| ▲ | grogenaut 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| good news, now you can use all that dram you can't afford to vibe code an arduino program. Think of the savings and the learnings! |
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| ▲ | tempaccount420 an hour ago | parent [-] | | You're probably joking, but this is interesting. If we throw more RAM at AI, it can help us optimize programs to reduce our RAM needs, I haven't thought about it like that |
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