Starting with Arduino Uno or Chipkit Uno32?

Hi there,

I was about to buy my first arduino device, a arduino uno. But seeing the chipkit uno32 at roughly the same price, is it worth starting with the classic one? My first apps will not need high speed but who knows for future.

Thanks

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fustini over 13 years ago +1

The Digilent ChipKit Uno32 ChipKit Uno32 along with the ChipKit Max32 are very interesting as they are the only non-AVR boards that I know which are software compatible with the Arduino platform. Their…
YT2095 over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

after I got a little jaded with the "shieds" I bought a small bread board and made my own breadboard "shield" for it with vero board and a few SIL headers, this is also good for small projects and quite…
fustini over 13 years ago in reply to ntewinkel +1

Hi - I've not used the Amicus but from what I know it is just hardware compatible and offers it's own BASIC environment. The ARM-based Maple from LeafLabs is another example of a board that is hardware…

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Former Member over 13 years ago

You are right, I will stay with well documented and well known by the community for now. By the way I will not go bankrupt if I need to buy something different later.
As for the shield I did not think a lot about it. I was thinking about getting one proto shield, maybe it would be smarter to prefer a large breadboard.
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I really like Arduino holders which have space to stick a breadboard. I use these for most prototyping and have only used a protoshield a couple times when I wanted to semi-finalize a design.

I own and recommend these Adafruit and Sparkfun holders:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10059
http://www.adafruit.com/products/275

I also own this holder which I use for my Arduino Mega:

http://store.tautic.com/acrylic-prototyping-board-for-chipkit-small.html
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I really like Arduino holders which have space to stick a breadboard. I use these for most prototyping and have only used a protoshield a couple times when I wanted to semi-finalize a design.

I own and recommend these Adafruit and Sparkfun holders:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10059
http://www.adafruit.com/products/275

I also own this holder which I use for my Arduino Mega:

http://store.tautic.com/acrylic-prototyping-board-for-chipkit-small.html
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