On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:06 AM, AlgoMantra wrote:

Well, multiplicity of options should be available, for the simple reason that...well, lets say I am in India, but Arduino was designed in Italy, so there is a good chance that some key component will not be readily or cheaply available to me here (India).

Surely the chances of being able to find compatible components generally decreases proportional to the number of different standards.

But while there are many different Arduino clones, several of them use the same programming interface. I guess what I am getting at is why reinvent the wheel. I wasn't thinking so much about the components used, but the programming (software) side of things. Having one common interface would allow for anyone to use any system, and yet, only having to learn one programming environment. I really do understand about the options of hardware, but with all this code out there already that is FREE and FREELY downloadable ANYWHERE, it only makes sense to not force new users or your hardware modules, who might already know the programming interface of Arduino, to have to learn another system. Mike On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:14 AM, AlgoMantra wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:06 AM, AlgoMantra wrote:

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Well, multiplicity of options should be available, for the simple reason that...well, lets say I am in India, but Arduino was designed in Italy, so there is a good chance that some key component will not be readily or cheaply available to me here (India).

Surely the chances of being able to find compatible components generally decreases proportional to

the number of different standards.

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Ah, but that's also a question of semantics, viz. what is a design apropos a standard? There are various Arduino clones, not just one - so they would fall under the same standard I suppose. I guess you do have a point though.

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