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Post #2180586

2025-11-20 19:25 UTC

@Kadin2048@mefi.social @henk@waag.social 8-bit microcontrollers were already a hideous technical choice for a long time. Accelerate the move to riscv or even rp2040.

Replies (3)

  • @Kadin2048@mefi.social 2025-11-20 22:21

    @dalias@hachyderm.io @henk@waag.social Yeah, I haven't actually written anything using the Arduino IDE for an 8-bit microcontroller in a long time; stuff like the ESP8266, ESP32, and RP2040 (via arduino-pico) are just too cheap in comparison.

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  • @Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz 2025-11-21 05:30

    @dalias@hachyderm.io @Kadin2048@mefi.social @henk@waag.social We moved to rp2040 in education about 2 yeara ago, with "arduinos" left for special applications

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  • @EI3JDB@mastodon.radio 2025-11-22 08:13

    @dalias@hachyderm.io @Kadin2048@mefi.social @henk@waag.social 8-bit microcontrollers don't have online threats, CVEs, viruses, or any of that newfangled stuff. I'd much rather buy a product where the software runs on an 8-bit than on some embedded Linux platform, because I'd much more expect it to just work, forever. Bigger systems open the door to various flavours of enshittification. :-(

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