On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 11:23, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm wanting to use micro controllers in more of an industrial setting. Don't want to spend the $$$$$$$$$$$ to get the officially hardened etc etc etc models.
Looking for information - - - - - there's piles on using Arduino, Raspberry Pi but they're not really developed for serious use (one point - - - - almost always have to add a cape or a shield to get real connectivity - - - - don't need the the hp waste that's RPi so I"d rather not use that . . . .) Trying to find other ucontroller boards - - - - can find plenty of SoB - - - - but not boards. Hoping to use open source tools for the programming and control.
Any suggestions as to where to look for this kind of stuff?
Am I wasting my time? (I hope not!!)
I think when you said "Raspberry Pi" above you were referring to the SBC, but they have very recently issued their own microcontroller board, "the Raspberry Pi Pico:" https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/pico/getting-started/ In fact they don't seem to have shipped yet, but they're going to be selling for $5.25CA each. I mention it as an alternative to the Arduinos, with the caveat that I know very little about microcontrollers. I own an Arduino Teensy, and have done a little programming on it, but that's all. And my understanding is that the reason the Arduino made such an impression on the market is because it's a lot easier to program than the older microcontroller boards that existed before it. And I suspect that initially, the Pi Pico will suffer from much the same problem. I say "initially," because the Pi itself has been so successful that it may drive sales of the Pico which would in turn lead to development of the coding environment for the Pico. Anyway, I thought I'd put that out there in case the Pico and/or its MicroPython (or C/C++) development environment sounds good. (This is of course NOT industrial grade.) -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com