{"id":7594,"date":"2012-06-02T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2012-06-02T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T16:22:34","slug":"knock-yourselves-out-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/knock-yourselves-out-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"knock yourselves out, guys &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why anyone would want to use the sort-of <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\">Arduino<\/a>-compatible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamstack.com\/hamstack.html\">HamStack<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d billed as a microcontroller platform especially for amateur radio operators \u00e2\u20ac\u201din preference to developing amateur radio applications for Arduino, but chacun \u00c3\u00a0 son thingy. The PIC-based [I&#8217;d link to the PIC info page, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microchip.com\/\">Microchip<\/a> is giving me an internal server error] platform may have a few more IO pins than the stock Arduino, but:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>development tools are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcompiler.co.uk\/swordfish\/\">expensive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>there&#8217;s no cross-platform support<\/li>\n<li>no direct USB support, either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some folks may already have gone to the expense of a PIC-based toolchain, but for beginners, it could be prohibitive. Maybe better to develop and improve radio applications for Arduino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why anyone would want to use the sort-of Arduino-compatible HamStack \u00e2\u20ac\u201d billed as a microcontroller platform especially for amateur radio operators \u00e2\u20ac\u201din preference to developing amateur radio applications for Arduino, but chacun \u00c3\u00a0 son thingy. The PIC-based [I&#8217;d link to the PIC info page, but Microchip is giving me an internal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2207,2364,2508,2415],"class_list":["post-7594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-arduino","tag-hamradio","tag-hamstack","tag-microcontroller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}