Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > > > On 17.02.2017 17:21, Kyle Owen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Philipp Hachtmann <hac...@hachti.de> > > > KiCad has no affiliation to Arduino; in fact, it's being heavily maintained > > by CERN. > But wherever I (!) look, in my part of the universe, a strongly biased > and personal view, I see only those Arduino folks using it. > Might be different in other places, but... > > > With the licensing model Eagle has just moved > > to, alternatives like KiCad sure seem attractive. > The new Eagle license model is a mess. I will stick to my Eagle 7. The > idea of my little board designs being held hostage by a company > somewhere is not good. > And when the day has come that I can't go with the then old Eagle > anymore and the licensing has not been repaired, then I will think about > alternatives. Perhaps then KiCAD has already changed into the greatest > EDA tool ever made.
Simply take a look now and then ..to adjust your point of view. > > > > Why are you bent out of shape over the Arduino community? It seems clear to > > me that teenagers growing up with them will outgrow the language and > > hardware limitations and move onto more advanced things before starting > > their careers. I think one could make a decent analogy to BASIC on many > > 8-bit microcomputers from decades past. > > Easy: If I had the impression that it is like you write, I'd be totally > fine with it! > But back in those days with BASIC it was easier to take the next step. > If you want to go further beyond Arduino, you will have to instantly > understand a huge amount of stuff. > In my opinion the learning step from using a fancy Arduino library to > understanding/modifying/writing another is too big. > In BASIC it started with little things like peek and poke. > There was no hidden C++ :-) > Agreed. I'm used some of the "shields" for aruinos from time to time, but I never used that arduino software for it. Ok, sometimes it is neccesary to look into a library to finally find out how the hardware is to be programmed..but I always wrote the code of my own. At least the masses of arduino related stuff drops the prices for interresting hardware stuff to play with. Regards, Holm -- Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, Freiberger Straße 42, 09600 Oberschöna, USt-Id: DE253710583 i...@tsht.de Fax +49 3731 74200 Tel +49 3731 74222 Mobil: 0172 8790 741