Question about Arduino Board

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allrounder799

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I wanted to get a Arduino board to further dive deep into robotics

I checked the official page of Arduino, listing the sellers in India who sell it, but I dont know if they are reputable

I know there will be someone on TE who at least have heard of Arduino and are interested in Robotics
I wanted to know from where can I get the board in Mumbai or any good online shop selling it??
 
I think most of those online shops seem reliable. No first hand info though.

I was planning to go the netduino way as well. For some cool hacks I had in for a while, the xduinos really open ways for weekend tinkerers. Lets keep each other posted on further development.
 
@sarang: Surely I keep posting on my projects as well as developments. Finally I have narrowed it down to Simple Labs and Tenetech. Will finally decide after exams are over.

I like netduino for its harware but I think .net programming is way to complex for me(at this stage)

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@vivek: Your link looks really useful, they also help in solving doubt
 
allrounder799 said:
@sarang: Surely I keep posting on my projects as well as developments. Finally I have narrowed it down to Simple Labs and Tenetech. Will finally decide after exams are over.

I like netduino for its harware but I think .net programming is way to complex for me(at this stage)

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@vivek: Your link looks really useful, they also help in solving doubt
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So whats your platform of choice? I've been a polyglot developer but for home projects i tend to fall back to .net (Like I'd naturally abuse in marathi in case of a road rage :p). Its not complex at all. Plus while you are still a student, abhorrence for a language ain't gonna help you in the longer run. Sample and taste as many languages as you get opportunity for and somewhere you'd find the language to curse people in :) just my 2 cents

On a second thought if we could could come with enough people on the same platform the local community as a whole might benefit due to the hive mind evolutions.
 
I am interested in robotics but mostly work directly on the uC's. I code directly in C and my preferred uC is Atmel Atmega8/16

Is Arduino really that much better than working straight with uC's?
Even though Arduino board can be reused in different projects, for permanent systems, isn't the cost of buying the Arduino board repeatedly a problem? And isn't the choce of uC's severely restricted?

What if I want to use 8051 or PIC series to keep costs down?

P.S: You can check out probots.co.in
They have some Arduino/Freeduino boards.
Also check out Rhydolabz, Nex-Robotics
 
@Sarang: I checked out several (Netduino vs Arduino) topics on various forums and I came to conclusion that I would prefer my platform as Arduino(as for now) because of the following

Netduino: More powerful than AD, .net is a bit better language than the one used for AD(initially I was wrong), .net makes complex programming easier to understand but the low down is that it has less shields and the community for ND is small

Arduino: Great for beginners, has many shields and very big community. Plus I know C/C++ a little better

I am want to master C#, .net, java, Visual Basic

@HotShot05: Yep one of the downside of arduino is that it is little expensive to be used in a permanent system, but for swapping it and using it in different projects it is great.

The choice of IC's is limited but is enough for what it is targeted at. And for using other IC's I am not quite sure it is possible in a Arduino(keep in mind i am beginner). I think someone who knows how to use 8051 uC would have that much knowledge to build a compatible development board.

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Thanx for the links hotshot
 
I bought a Arduino from Rhydolabz. They are good with fast service.
Some sites are also selling some Arduino clones at cheaper price - check that also.
 
archat68 said:
I bought a Arduino from Rhydolabz. They are good with fast service.

Some sites are also selling some Arduino clones at cheaper price - check that also.
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What projects did you make using the arduino?

Was thinking about checking out Arduino sometime. But all the projects that is done with arduino, almost all is available with raw AVR programming. And the syntax in Arduino is not too different either.

Was checking out the netduino. Programming is the easiest there(never thought it could be this easy. Its like the VB of the uC world). But it is a 32bit microcontroller. That is overkill for me.

Which hobbyist needs a 32 bit uC?
 
hotshot05 said:
What projects did you make using the arduino?

Was thinking about checking out Arduino sometime. But all the projects that is done with arduino, almost all is available with raw AVR programming. And the syntax in Arduino is not too different either.

Was checking out the netduino. Programming is the easiest there(never thought it could be this easy. Its like the VB of the uC world). But it is a 32bit microcontroller. That is overkill for me.

Which hobbyist needs a 32 bit uC?
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The one who wants to code in simpler framewoks and does not know much about uC except the college theory stuff?
 
Allow me to ask a noob question:

While checking out many online shops, I found that they sell development boards for 8051, AVR, ARM etc but Arduino

also uses the AVR uC, so it isn't a development board?

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Also can anybody tell me the difference between development board and programmer?
 
allrounder799 said:
Allow me to ask a noob question:

While checking out many online shops, I found that they sell development boards for 8051, AVR, ARM etc but Arduino

also uses the AVR uC, so it isn't a development board?

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Also can anybody tell me the difference between development board and programmer?
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Arduino boards are development boards. But Arduino is the name of the microcontroller with the preloaded bootloader(Am not sure what is the exact definition but this is what I think).

Development board means that all the usable I/O ports are connected to headers so that users can program on their own and attach peripheral devices easily to the microcontroller easily. It reduces the development time since one can use a standard board to check out the various functions and then finally create the actual board when it is going to be sent to production, rather than making boards every single time a new program is to be built.

An analogy is the breadboard which is used to test different circuits before the design is finalized.

Programmers are devices which are used to transfer the file containing machine code(usually *.hex file) to the flash of the microcontroller so that the uC can execute the commands present in that file.

Sometimes development board include programmers(very rare for low cost boards) too.
 
I am interested too, as long as pricing is moderate and affordable. planning to use it to decipher the hex codes sent via hdmi-cec!
 
One thing that makes Arduino apart from every other dev. board is, its community support/libraries and coding and burning on the fly . Try to get original arduino cause cause later you may find a shield that wont fit.

or else get a Atmega8 flash it with arduino boot-loader, make a breadboard version .you need to use parallel port programmer for the first time to flash boot-loader. once done now you can use a nokia-dku5 cable its actullay serial-usb convertor for all the communication flashing/debugging.
 
@tutysara: Either from Rhydolabz or simplelabs

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@Vidy: I think making a sort of Arduino myself is complicated for me, but I would like to make the shields because they are little expensive to buy, especially the wireless ones!!
 
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