I am designing a course to teach Arduino to high school students and I would like to use the Cloud with Chromebooks which are much easier to administer than Windows or Macs and also much less expensive. It appears that Chromebooks are supported -- is that true? Are there any potential drawbacks to using a Chromebook? I would imagine all source code that a student writes will be saved in the cloud versus locally, correct? Thanks
You are limited by the libraries that Arduino has included/updated. There are workarounds but somewhat messy.
Also you cannot use every microcontroller board. IIRC, Teensy isn't supported. I believe there are others.
I used the Uno R3 (Elegoo) to start with until I exhausted it memory. Switched to a Mega2560 without problem. Fell down a rabbit hole so to speak when I tried to switch to an Adafruit PyGamer ( ATSAMD51 ARM M4 processor).
I haven't used the Arduino Create Chrome App, but I can't imagine that there is any difference in the available libraries than when using Arduino Web Editor. The 4686 libraries of the Arduino Library Manager are all pre-installed in Arduino Web Editor. I'm not sure I would consider that much of a limitation.
The boards are definitely more limited compared to using the standard Arduino IDE though. And they are even a bit more limited in the Chrome App compared to using Arduino Web Editor.
The supported boards are listed here:
This is really nice and appreciable that you are working hard to develop a course for school students. In America developers generally do efforts to increase the growth of the student so that they can do inventions. Last night I was reading this article A Brief Description of the American Dream - Local Histories and I was wondered to know about the dreams of Americans. It's totally different from us.
Who is "us"?
The main idea is that we (here in the U.S.) are don't have social classes. Of course EVERY society has economic classes but here in America you can be born poor, become successful, be respected, and accepted into "upper class society" the same as someone born-into wealth. Perhaps even MORE respected than someone from a wealthy family.
Of course this usually means economic success. You aren't considered "successful" if you are poor.
Most financially successful people in America didn't inherit their money. (Of course it never hurts to have a head-start.)
Berack Obama was born "middle class", perhaps lower-middle class but he did attend private schools, and he is (half) minority but these were not barriers to becoming a very popular president, and now he's VERY rich!
Elon Musk is from a wealthy family but he immigrated to America with almost nothing and created his own wealth (and wealth for lots of other people along the way).
We have a saying (I don't know who first said it): "The first generation creates wealth, the 2nd generation maintains it, and the 3rd generation squanders it."
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