On 23 Jan 2018, at 19:54, Paul Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. I see nothing wrong with using Arduinos - they opened hardware up to > a huge audience, including me, and they continue to enable rapid prototyping. > Perhaps we could carry on this 'discussion' in other threads, though I > suspect it is a religious thing with no specific conclusion to be drawn.
I do agree with you Paul. The Arduino seems to be a religious icon with little reason to be so in fact or reality. We could discuss this elsewhere, or we could discuss it here. Why not just find a chip that one thinks one can deal with and program the son-of-uncertain-parenthood up? I just don’t get the let-me-totally-depend-on-someone-else’s-library thing. But I do understand, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” Enquiries I get regularly are predominantly along the lines of ‘Hi, I really like it! Can you give me your code and tell me exactly how to build one?’ or 'Hi, your idea was really great but I have a much better one that does something very different which I am sure, given your ability, will not take you long at all to code and send to me and I will of course tell everyone you did it for me and it will make you look really cool, because my idea is so amazing!’ Nooo! Yours admitting to a great deal of age-related flatulence, John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/84583204-F4F7-4690-B8B9-35090489EFB4%40jsdesign.co.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
