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#1 SushiKitten

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Posted 08 June 2013 - 07:51 AM

So after my pretty awesome robotics work term last winter, I'm thinking of starting my little DIY electronics collection and buying an Arduino with my birthday money, I'm still debating between the Uno and the Mega. The Uno is cheaper, but most bigger projects require more I/O pins, which the Mega has. There's so many cool projects you can do, though. Like an LED cube, or a rover, or (hopefully one day I will make this one) a biped robot. 

 

Just curious if anyone does any cool things with Arduinos or MCUs around here.



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Posted 09 June 2013 - 11:23 AM

I think you're our only robot person so far. >.>

If you make something awesome though, make a guide so we can get more awesome robot people.


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Posted 25 February 2014 - 10:16 AM

I have an Arduino uno and mini. I've made an Ardunioboy for my gameboy but other than that idk what to make lol. So if you get any good ideas please let me know lol. :3


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Posted 25 February 2014 - 01:06 PM

I used to have one of those but I never really used it

Other than that I played around with different mc's but I never did anything with moving parts, only data aquisition and led blinking :P


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Posted 04 April 2014 - 06:17 AM

Arduino. The possibilities are endless. I have made many robotic and other projects using these boards. Also have a look at something made by Digilent called Chipkit UNO 32. Its 32bit and has much more IO lines compared to arduino and the best is its pretty much arduino compatible coding etc. In other words you can upload your arduino sketches into these guys. I still use the AVR based arduino environment but normaly take the chips off board and make up PC boards for my projects. 

 

If you ever need some help just ask :-) If I where to choose between the UNO and MEGA id go with Mega. 

 

Good luck. 



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Posted 04 April 2014 - 07:50 AM

I have an axon, although I wish that I had gone for the arduino. Cheaper and more ubiquitious.
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Posted 06 April 2014 - 02:57 PM

I have an Arduino uno and mini. I've made an Ardunioboy for my gameboy but other than that idk what to make lol. So if you get any good ideas please let me know lol. :3

You can make a cool little robot with the uno. http://communityofro...t-using-arduino This is super similar to the one they have us make in first year for engineering. It's a lot of fun.

 

 

Arduino. The possibilities are endless. I have made many robotic and other projects using these boards. Also have a look at something made by Digilent called Chipkit UNO 32. Its 32bit and has much more IO lines compared to arduino and the best is its pretty much arduino compatible coding etc. In other words you can upload your arduino sketches into these guys. I still use the AVR based arduino environment but normaly take the chips off board and make up PC boards for my projects. 

 

If you ever need some help just ask :-) If I where to choose between the UNO and MEGA id go with Mega. 

 

Good luck. 

Chipkit sounds perfect for the kind of things I'm looking to do. 

 

I didn't really like Arduino's IDE, I just used Eclipse with an AVR plug in. 



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Posted 20 April 2014 - 02:22 PM

PICs are better, cheaper and smaller.

PICs are also more official being programmed in C, not a new language.

PICs are using less power.

PICs are not just pro prototyping.

 

CONCLUSION: PICs are better than Arduinos

 

Raspberries are also better.



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Posted 20 April 2014 - 02:43 PM

All I can think of is Robot Wars.

 

Please build a robot for robot wars. D:


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Posted 20 April 2014 - 03:13 PM

PICs are better, cheaper and smaller.

PICs are also more official being programmed in C, not a new language.

PICs are using less power.

PICs are not just pro prototyping.

 

CONCLUSION: PICs are better than Arduinos

 

Raspberries are also better.

Arduino's language is basically C/C++. Anyone who knows C can use an Arduino. It was actually a platform we were considering using for the first year programming course in our university where they teach C++. The only reason we didn't use it was because all you can do with an Arduino without any separate hardware is blink an LED and we didn't want to add any complexity. 

 

I never liked PIC. We have to use it for a project for first year. Compared to Arduino, the process to get the code on board is way more complicated. As for less power, I have no idea, but the fact that Arduino is open source shouldn't detriment from it's value. I could be biased because that was my only experience with PIC. I think the university likes Atmel products better, because my experience with microcontroller boards after that have all been Atmel and I really liked it. 



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Posted 21 April 2014 - 01:25 AM

Why would you need open hardware PICs when you can't make them, and cost less than 10$?



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Posted 21 April 2014 - 04:27 AM

You're also comparing a microcontroller development board to a microcontroller. The ATmega32 MCU that the Arduino is usually based on is $8.80 on Sparkfun. The dev board is to hide the e!ectronics and do all that nasty soldering on tiny, close together pins, good for when you're just starting out or playing with an idea.

And because its open source, people have been able to create many, many cool things with it. Companies and especially schools can use them without a license. Really, open source is just better, especially for DIY and if you're learning.

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Posted 23 April 2014 - 06:23 PM

This thread always confuses me; "Arduino" sounds like a pokémon.


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