Story of Arduino.. https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/12/09/one-board-to-rule-them-all-history-of-the-arduino-uno/
Being a engineer for years, Arduino is not my option in any of my projects. It's comparably expensive, poor-porformance, poor-designed. The true story that they use Atmega MCU is that there space have several thousands of Atmega by coincidence. Not a solid reason. To some extent, we say that Arduino saved Atmel.
The toolchain is poor. IDE is poor, even the default font is ugly for programming.
It has done some help to newbies, but the terminology they used is not accurate in software field. It will make Arduino users harder to understand the development of MCU programming, vice-versa.
They have done nearly none contribution to the electronics and software world outside of Arduino. They could have done better job to let the software community contribute to more general embedded programming.
I don't have much experience developing Arduino related projects and whenever I have any better choice, I will not use it.
Here's for the firmware part, looking quite interesting:
https://gill.net.in/posts/pic32-blink-led-rust/
For the love of XXX I couldn’t get it to work for me to even test if my setup is wired correctly. At that point I turned to open-source solutions.
Getting away from the not-so-well-working Microchip tools is awesome! \o/
I read through the source code of pslab-desktop, found nothing about initialization sequence in javascript or the .py scripts inside the pslab-desktop directory
Then I go a little deeper found that the pslab-desktop use python script in pslab
Then I modified the python script in the serial_handler.py to print something but found nothing showed up in my terminal. Where did all the stdout redirected?
I've removed the .pyc and tested again, nothing changed.
What shall I do next?
strace -f -F -o /dev/shm/unzip/del/pslab_strace /usr/bin/pslab
1749800 stat("/home/USER/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pslab-2.4.0-py3.9.egg/pslab", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
1749800 stat("/home/USER/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pslab-2.4.0-py3.9.egg/pslab/serial_handler.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16100, ...}) = 0
1749800 stat("/home/USER/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pslab-2.4.0-py3.9.egg/pslab/serial_handler.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16100, ...}) = 0
1749800 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/r/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pslab-2.4.0-py3.9.egg/pslab/pycache/serial_handler.cpython-39.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 6
1749800 fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=15726, ...}) = 0
When will the v6 hardware commercially available? and if so, wil the v5 hardware still be commercially available? I'am in the phase of designing a new testsystem and I have to decide which board to use.
Regards, Evert Huijben, Remoticom
https://twitter.com/gamozolabs/status/1489256493182377984?t=as59fzn_ZQ8-rJDiOLLP2A&s=19
