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Hello!

I have some ideas about get intro Arduino /At mega based microcontollers to implement them intro new or existing systems.
Idea is based on systems that are not-automated to make them half or fully automated by the wish of user.
My knowledge of the process in industry and electronics by my opinion is enough to get start in some: Ventilation system,Data logging and processing/displaying sensors values in manufacturing,Central heating systems,Lighting control etc.
So by the all that I have marketing experts willing to help my ideas to advertise them on the market and fairs of innovation to gather some potential investors in developing new products and solutions.
What you think about that approach and do you have some experiences that are you willing to share and help improve something.Do some of you already get intro that kind of stuff and get recognized by the investors to get your businesses going?
That is my idea at the most basic explanation level.

I will gladly accept any advice and get intro conversation about that.
Thank you.

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Arduino is a good prototyping and hobbyist platform, but when it's Serious Business people who do microcontroller stuff seem to prefer other things. The Arduino platform has a hardware abstraction layer that makes it much easier to learn and work with. But that comes at a price.

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Paul:
I agree with what you said, but there are exceptions (of course!). The biggest one I've found is that for very small quantity or one-off development, Arduino is great because you can find all the hardware off the shelf and there's no need to incur the cost of laying our PC boards, etc. or all the other issues with custom development.

It's a great platform as long as you keep its limitations in mind.

Of course, the drawback is that some of the libraries are buggy and need to be rewritten :frowning: