If you are already an android developer then ioio is indeed the thing for you.
Concerning the 90$ startup kit, it depends a bit what you consider expensive. I personally think that it can save you some precious hours and save you from some frustration at the beginning and that is worth easily 90$ (or rather 60$ the difference). The good things: - come with jumpers, led, motors, rapid prototyping board so that you can make a quick experiment in no time (if you do not have any of those, I would buy the package) - no need to do soldiering on the ioio - just chose the example as close as possible from what you want to do, get the example running then modify it to do what you were looking for The less good: - the software provided is not based on the standard (or former standard) Eclipse IDE. Honestly I never tried that supposed simpler IDE and went directly to Eclipse. Concerning Android Studio, even though your experience could benefit the community to migrate to that platform, it could be very frustrating to start with something experimental. What about trying first with Eclipse if you had previous experience with it, get your first example running, then migrate to Android Sudio? That might actually save you time. B. On Friday, January 2, 2015 2:52:30 AM UTC+1, Thanos Fisherman wrote: > > Thanks Bill, Good to know everything is working nicely. > I am already an android developer so that is why ioio seemed like a > perfect choice for me. After all why Should I spend time getting to know > arduino programming language from scratch if I am are already familiar with > java and android? > Only thing is I've recently migrated to android studio so I'm planning to > use ioio along with android studio. I just hope that there are not any > incompatibilities. > And btw I was planning to buy the whole ioio kit from sparkfun. I think > it's about 90$ or something. Do you think it's worth it? > > Τη Παρασκευή, 2 Ιανουαρίου 2015 3:27:59 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Bill Carter > έγραψε: >> >> >> I'm having no problems with the recent-revision IOIO OTG boards I bought. >> I've been able to do some things with them that are really exciting to me. >> I recommend that you go ahead and get one to experiment with, they are only >> about $30 from Seedstudio. You will want to be able to flash it to the >> current firmware level though when you get it. The procedure is posted on >> Ytai's wiki. >> >> Be aware that you will need to be (or become) reasonably proficient with >> Android application programming and the Eclipse development environment in >> order to get anywhere with it. But I think Arduino is way more difficult, >> with that you get no debugger and no user interface for your projects. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
