- More pins, enabling more input/output. While there are some projects that only need a few pins, larger ones like big interactive light installations benefit from more
- Almost all pins are analog or digital compatible, with a few high current digital ones
- Compatible with Arduino header boards
- Better IDE
- Included ADC (two types, one can drive CD-quality audio), DACs, comparators, op-amps for bufferring, capacitive sensiving. These remove the need for a lot of external stuff to make simple and common things.
As someone who already has a stack of Arduinos, a PIC programmer, and a handful of Raspberry Pi's... this is still something that is unique and relevant. Pretty awesome and I hope it makes its funding goal.
Thanks for all the support so far, I've received just under 20 backers from direct referrals from here, and I really appreciate it.
This is a great summary of the pain points I'm trying to address.
I really can't emphasize enough how revolutionary the PSoC Creator IDE is. I've been using it for the past three years, and it FAR exceeds any other MCU development environment I've ever used. (including a few mentioned in the comments here)
If you are on the fence about it, download the IDE from cypress.com and try it out, it's totally free and always will be. They have several example projects you can get to from the File->Open menu, which illustrate much of the functionality.
I took a components design course 5+ years ago, but I haven't done any hardware work since. This project looks really exciting to me, but can you explain some of these features and why they matter?
For example, what is a digital-compatible pin? What makes a pin digital capable, versus analog? And what are some of these serial port limitations mentioned in the project description?
- More pins, enabling more input/output. While there are some projects that only need a few pins, larger ones like big interactive light installations benefit from more
- Almost all pins are analog or digital compatible, with a few high current digital ones
- Compatible with Arduino header boards
- Better IDE
- Included ADC (two types, one can drive CD-quality audio), DACs, comparators, op-amps for bufferring, capacitive sensiving. These remove the need for a lot of external stuff to make simple and common things.
As someone who already has a stack of Arduinos, a PIC programmer, and a handful of Raspberry Pi's... this is still something that is unique and relevant. Pretty awesome and I hope it makes its funding goal.