Re: USB Boarduino on AVR-Ada Tutorial

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:16:38 +0000 (UTC), Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:

>Brian Drummond expounded in
>news:8cjl56l69ruae3ev5ntfnjvker3uldlctg@4ax.com: 
>>>The Arduino focus has always been to make it easy for people to get
>>>started and teaching, which is ok.  But I think they've sometimes
>>>"dumbed it down" too much.  They don't want their students to get
>>>confused by technical details like upload baud rates or I/O ports
>>>and pins. They'd prefer them to know that the LED is "digital pin 13"
>>>instead of  Port B, bit 5 (on a particular chip).  Anyway, that's
>>>just my opinion- I like to drive.

>> this looks like a candidate for an "Arduino" package which contains
>> all the renames, so you can "with Arduino" and write
>>    Arduino.Led := On;

>I have no interest in doing that myself. The Arduino folks 
>have what I consider, a rather extreme focus on "easy for 
>new students". That's ok, it's their project.  

Apologies if that sounded like a request! It may be something I can tackle, once
the basic tools are in place.

>To me, the biggest plus on the Arduino side is the cheap
>and easy to use programmers, hardware, "shields" and PCBs
>etc.  Now, being able to use Ada on them, is just icing
>on the cake.

Agreed.

- Brian