Arduino Alternatives
Comments discuss Arduino microcontroller boards, their ecosystem, libraries, and community compared to cheaper alternatives like ESP32 or Black Pill for hobbyist prototyping and projects.
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Aren't arduinos a fraction of the cost and have a much larger community?
What can you do with it that you can't with Arduino?
What do you suggest in arduino's place?
People are discussing Arduino alternatives, so yes, we are firmly within hobbyist territory.
It's not the hardware but the ecosystem, libraries and support which is available. Sure there are alternatives like platformio but when you're learning most of the stuff out there eg youtube use Arduino IDE and libs. And just try and get an LLM to produce code based on Espressif libraries not Arduino lols...
I prefer Arduino, but may be just cause i do very basic things :)
What board / software is the current leader in this space? Is there a brand akin to Arduino ?
Probably the arduino - with the open source libraries and such.
Remember that Arduino is OSHW so clones & alternate implementations are everywhere at far lower cost. You're better off starting with a Black Pill or ESP32 based unit these days anyway. The overall ecosystem and common framework is far more valuable than any individual piece of hardware.
it's as sybolic as buying Arduino