Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs

Date	2025-10-09 01:54 -0400
Subject	Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs
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From	c186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
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On 10/8/25 04:46, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 08/10/2025 07:50, Andy Burns wrote:
>> c186282 wrote:
>>
>>>    The Ards are very good - within their reasonable
>>>    range. Did many projects/devices with the 2560s.
>>>    Lots of hand-soldered add-on shields.
>>>
>>>    But they're not modern FAST.
>>
>> I view Arduino as a waning technology, which makes it strange that 
>> Qualcomm have bought then at this time ...
>>
> I tend to agree. I always found arduinos to be expensive, and now RP2040 
> et al are way cheaper, one wonders what ATMEL is worth any more. Perhaps 
> what Arduino is, is not so much the hardware, as the expertise in tool 
> chains, development platforms  and the like.

   As said, they are "well supported" and not so complex
   that newbies are locked out. I suspect they will be
   around for many more years.

   Some of the RPi's and friends are a lot faster, but
   'faster' isn't always what you want for a given
   task profile. You decidedly do NOT need an OS
   for every little damned thing. Not sure the latest
   gen even understands that concept.

   Example - solar-powered field devices. Ard libs
   support VERY low idle power consumption. The PIs
   aren't as useful there. Built many solar dataloggers
   around Ards. They'd only come to life on a timer
   or sensor interrupt, then go into deep sleep again.
   A mere 3 watt panel was usually adequate, 5 watt
   for a few special locations. Very compact.

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Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-06 23:07 -0400
  Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-07 06:25 +0000
    Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-07 09:38 +0100
    Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-08 02:13 -0400
      Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-10-08 07:50 +0100
        Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-10-08 08:11 +0100
        Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-08 09:46 +0100
          Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-08 16:41 +0000
            Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-08 17:56 +0100
          Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 01:54 -0400
        Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-08 16:24 +0000
          Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-08 17:38 +0100
          Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 02:51 -0400
        Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 01:29 -0400
          Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-10-09 09:29 +0100
            Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-09 13:12 +0100
              Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 21:20 -0400
            Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 21:16 -0400
              Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-10-10 08:41 +0100
                Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-10 19:45 +0000
                Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-11 00:26 -0400
                Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-11 06:42 +0000
      Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-08 09:42 +0100
      Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-08 16:22 +0000
  Re: Russian Attack Drones Using UK CPUs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-07 09:36 +0100

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