A community for those who use Arduino boards, Arduino clone boards, Arduino adjacent boards, Arduino software, and anything intended to be used or that can be used with Arduino hardware and/or software. If you can connect it to an Arduino or program it with the Arduino IDE it is welcome here.

If you are thinking about buying your first Arduino or if you have one in your hand and don’t know where to begin this is the community for you.

Come and ask questions or show off your project. No one is too new or too experienced for this community.

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  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hmm. Arduino is awesome and all, but order probably matters?

    So first off, lemme “sell” people on Arduino really quickly. Arduino is a 5V microcontroller, which means it works with ancient 40-year-old TTL and CMOS crap… while simultaneously having a modern IDE / ease of programming that will make most EEs blush. Its a good mix of high-support and ease of programming that’s difficult to do with other chips (ex: most Cortex-M0+ ARMs are only 3.6V or even 1.8V, becoming incompatible on a lot of the older designs still in use today…)

    I’m not sure if there’s a general Electrical Engineering community in the Fediverse yet. Arduino probably is casting the net too small? You probably could expand the topic to EE in general (or microcontrollers, or more) and still have very low traffic in general.

    I’m always open to more EE topics, especially on the Fediverse. And Arduino is an awesome board I’d like to see more discussion around. But broadening the scope could be beneficial?

    • MapleEngineer@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t realize how small the Fediverse was at first. I think that an Arduino community is good because the boards are so accessible and there is so much support for them. I work with non-Ardunio AVR controller boards and PIC boards which are more challenging and less accessible.

      Maybe a microcontroller community would be a good idea.