arduino

[Rob Seastrom]

Alberto di Bene <dibene at usa.net> writes:

> Duuh, I didn't intend to ruin your love affair with Arduino. My goal
> was just that of alerting all those interested, and willing to spend
> just a couple of minutes more after having plugged it in an USB port
> under Windows, after having loaded the provided drivers, to start
> the (free) toolchain to code just a few lines in C to say "Hello" to
> the world...

You need to include the time to load and patch Windows in this whole
equation.  That's a major prerequisite around here.  I'm partial to
platform independent dev environments.

Better yet, why not take Terry's "more is always better" argument to
its logical conclusion and only use embedded systems that can
self-host their development environments?  That sure saves a lot of
hassle!

pi at raspberrypi ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.1.9adafruit+ #10 PREEMPT Thu Aug 30 20:07:05 EDT 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
pi at raspberrypi ~ $ gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello
pi at raspberrypi ~ $ ./hello
hello world!
pi at raspberrypi ~ $ python --version
Python 2.7.3rc2
pi at raspberrypi ~ $ git version
git version 1.7.10.4
pi at raspberrypi ~ $ 

-r