Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Chemical photography Date: 27 Nov 2025 19:03:20 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10ebv9k$1fsdl$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10ecii3$3i0a8$2@dont-email.me> <10fqaah$3spoa$1@dont-email.me> <10frmd7$8gqr$2@dont-email.me> <10fs6vm$cn1j$1@dont-email.me> <10g2oau$2t510$1@dont-email.me> <10g4rmu$3ld1j$1@dont-email.me> <1kjivlxq36.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net X0iqPA3Uk4SAsV4Koj52sg0Yoc+ns8TAbIzW3VwbgKytrHdt6o Cancel-Lock: sha1:6Wz0e50uFvPHUkYwbA6xUE7nI/w= sha256:oo+ffapVwbDqJkCRxme7kbK4TmC5sBGja8SXMthuqCE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77964 On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:40:16 -0500, c186282 wrote: > Um ... would still tend to buy either a microcontroller OR a CPU. > Don't like weird un-optimised mixes. > > There was an earlier Ard with a (Linux-capable?) CPU spliced on. > Didn't buy those either. Yeah, Arduino had aspirations to the industrial controller market. Those were rather expensive as opposed to the $44 consumer friendly version. It's interesting it uses a ST Micro MCU. ST is very popular for commercial embedded development and has its own IDE. I think part of the reason it hasn't caught on with hobbyists is the selection process. You buy a Pico, you get a Pico. You buy a ST you spend half a day trying to figure out the part number for what you need.