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Subject: Re: Chemical photography
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 03:36 this Friday (GMT):
> On 11/27/25 14:03, rbowman wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
>    You can go nuts trying to find THE Perfect Thing.
>
>    Better to embrace the KISS principle and pick
>    something Good Enough, something you can lightly
>    hammer into what you need.
>
>    Pico's are KISS ... an omni-tool that can be
>    easily bent to fit a huge variety of needs -
>    AND inexpensive.

Hopefully not literally hammered :)
Anyways, I agree with KISS

>    Hmmm ... had one boss who didn't want Linux around
>    because it was FREE - equated Expensive with Better
>    and, of course, expensive let him pad the dept budget.


The type who do that always annoy me, since thats how we end up dealing
with buggy as hell software nobody can fix because the company doesn't
care and also refuse to let the end user anywhere near the internals...
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