A 32-bit Development System For $2 138
An anonymous reader writes "If you are too cheap to buy a $20 Arduino or too elitist to not have at least a 32-bit processor, Dr. Dobb's shows you how to take a $2 chip, put it on a breadboard with a TTL serial (or USB) cable, and be up and running with a 32-bit C/C++ system. Even if you have to buy the breadboard and the cable, it is comparable in price to an Arduino and much more capable. The Mbed libraries (optional) make it as easy to use a 'duino, too."
Not news (Score:5, Insightful)
So you can take a $2 microcontroller, put it on your $10 breadbord, power it with your $100 variable power supply, wire it up with your $5 eBay chi.com wires, and talk to it with your $12 FTDI adapter. SO WHAT? This isn't news. This is what ARM developers have been doing since the damn chips came out.
Wide variety of individual chips (Score:5, Insightful)
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I for one (Score:2, Insightful)
look forward to buying one, playing with it for a day, then throwing it in a drawer, never to be seen until I move.
Dr. Dobb's excellent content (Score:5, Insightful)
Huh? Have you actually looked at it in the last few years?
This quarter, Walter Bright on writing languages, Dave Thomas (the Ruby guy) on why he regrets being one of the original signers of the the Agile Manifesto, Cay Horstmann's lengthy tutorial on Java 8 lambdas, Microsoft's compiler team on the most underused compiler switches for Visual C++. In addition, Jolt Awards, salary survey, and editorials that aren't shy, like this week's on companies using OSS without buying licenses. I read and love Dr. Dobb's and don't in anyway recognize what you're talking about.
breadboard alone is $30 (Score:4, Insightful)
The cheapest breadboard I could find was $30.
In other news, I also figured out how to get a great ride for $1. All you need to do is add a $1 car freshener to your existing BMW.