How far can you go with Arduino?

RE: How far can you go with Arduino?

e14 Contributor — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:04:31 GMT

The arduino(ATMEL), chipKit(Microchip), and similar are a great educational tools for many reasons, but to answer the question at hand at least for education, Id say No. The basic principle of electronics and programming have not changed a whole lot in the past 15 years to my knowledge. Smaller and more complex devices have come about, but the basic concepts are still there to learn. The arduino boards are great for that, they are low cost(which is great for schools and students), they have a very friendly electrical setup, plus all the shields that can be added, and an easy to use programing language. I dont want to say they have a limit because terry's point is very true, the limit is what we as engineers can use them for. My example is, a long term testing unit for switching 12V inputs on a datalogger of sort, using a FET shield(currently 45days and running, and yes this is a realworld device the arduino is hooked up to).

RE: How far can you go with Arduino?

vivamort — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:03:17 GMT

The Arduino is an amazing device, and its capabilities is just as people say, down to the individuals imagination.

RE: How far can you go with Arduino?

R_Phoenix — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:24:01 GMT

I see uses for the Arduino (or at least the ATMEGA / AVR chips) every day. I think what you can do is only limited by the chip, if it can't do everything then use a bigger one - or use 2!

As for how many different "duino" style boards that can be fashioned is probably proportional to the number of applications that can be applied.

RE: How far can you go with Arduino?

WestfW — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:48:27 GMT

What is it that you consider to be the "-duino" concept?

Open source hardware? It's not really so different from a manufacture's "reference design"

Simplified application-development environment?

Large, diverse, and extremely helpful user community? There's no limit to the usefulness of THAT, but figuring out how to create such a thing "on demand" seems to be ... difficult.