/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Little known fact: the arduino mega costs about the same as the UNO ($11 or so on amazon), but it comes with an LED pre-installed on digital pin 13.

I can't exaggerate how much time that has saved me over the years.

>>1298124
>If the guy wants to seriously get into microcontrollers then definitely an Arduino is not the way to go,

pic related is on amazon for about $11, and has 8k sram, 256k flash, 4k eeprom, 4 16 bit timers, 4 uarts, etc., etc., etc.

if you can't "seriously get into microcontrollers" with that, how the ever loving fuck does one "seriously get into microcontrollers"? Just because the board says "arduino" does not mean that you have to use precious arduino sketches that you keep in a fucking "sketchbook".

Let me aske here, i want mega2560 for my printer, but have no idea if i have to compile source if i want to use small stepper motors smaller tham nema17. Propably yes, so is Atmel Studio 6.1 enough to do or its better and easyer to use arduino program? I would prefer that AS 6.1. I got programmer for SPI and PDI. It can run atmegas.