I’ll start a new thread! > On Jan 23, 2018, at 4:45 PM, John Smout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/-Sn5QXLXNc8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
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