With Arduino Mega, I do not see any point of using Wiring, which have a weaker CPU and a non-open source hardware (at least I cannot find schematic for it) If so, what's the point of the Wiring board?
Sadly this is just the nature of technology: obsolescence. The wiring platform is now outdated, it would be silly at this point in time to purchase a wiring board as it costs far more than the MEGA and is inferior. Im not bashing Wiring, it was the forerunner for arduino and was a worthy platform, just a dying piece of hardware s'all.
All I can say is... ouch.
I dunno. There are a lot of "niches" in the marketplace for a lot of products. I don't think that Parallax Basic Stamp sales have been hurt very much by the advent of Arduino, though perhaps some of those $70+ 24-pin things deserve a little less success... Wiring could easily survive in education markets just by stressing "curricula" rather than "projects."
However, you cannot use Basic Stamps to compare Arduino. It's like comparing PC & Mac.
Wiring and Arduino Mega is more like... umm... Unix. You first have Unix, which is wiring, and then Linux, which at first seems unprofessional, but then grew large enough into our "enterprise linux" (Arduino Mega).
Wiring and Arduino Mega is more like... umm... Unix.
I'll accept that comparison. And how many different linux distributions are there these days? I rest my case!
I'm a little shaky on what the whole 'wiring' things is all about. I thought at first it was just built in library stuff that mapped AVR physical pins to make I/O addressing virtual and therefore easy to port to different AVR chip models. But then there is the wiring hardware modules that proceeded the Arduino hardware platform and I guess there library software and was used instead of starting from scratch? So what all does wiring give us and if it's just software can't it just be expanded, modified or replaced as required or desired?
Thanks
Lefty
There are schematics there, and for the most part it's about the same as an arduino, and not like the Atmega 128 is a slouch, still better then 168 for in's and out's. I do agree the wiring boards are costly, but build your own.