The snega2usb is not for you if… you don’t see the difference between making private backup copies of games that you own, and downloading 10,000 ROMs from the internets.
Looks like it isn't for me *shrug*
I do want to build SOMETHING though. I've got a ton more disposable income than before (yay job!). I was thinking of getting an arduino or something, tho
The snega2usb is not for you if… you don’t see the difference between making private backup copies of games that you own, and downloading 10,000 ROMs from the internets.
Looks like it isn't for me *shrug*
Goodsets ftw
Kllrnohj wrote:
I do want to build SOMETHING though. I've got a ton more disposable income than before (yay job!). I was thinking of getting an arduino or something, tho
Just got my security deposit on my old apartment back, so now I can work on the kit again
I've been hearing a lot about the arduino project for the past year or so now; I never looked into them much because IMO arduino is sorta like the BASIC Stamp of AVRs (actually, BASIC Stamp and Arduino are two competing standards), and if you're working with microcontrollers why add unnecessary layers of abstraction and overhead? Although, in the case of Arduino the programming language is essentially just C/C++ with Wiring and is closer to machine code than BASIC is to a PIC or an SX chip in a BASIC Stamp.
Arduino is neat and beginner-friendly, but it's hardly much more difficult to do the work in C (or even assembly, given the limited instruction sets in the common hobbyist micros). You can implement everything Arduino does yourself for less than the cost of Arduino, plus you get to learn while you implement it.
tl;dw PICAXE is unbelievably high-level (srsly using only a flowchart to program wtf?), AVRs are awesome, Arduino is just a glorified AVR devboard, shields are NEATO!, and ye ole ASM programmers are dicks (but I really CAN code faster and more efficiently in ASM than C; inlining is for pussies ).
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