EEVblog #45 - Arduino, PICAXE, and idiot assembler programmers

[Ferroto]

I agree most of the opensource projects are for some wierd reason coded in ASM which kinda ticks me off if I want to change something but can't make heads or tales of the code I took one look at ASM and said eff that, although it wasn't until I read an example code of a PIC lighting an LED that I figured out why my c code wasn't working.

[Simon]

I lived in Italy for 15 years (happily I'm back in the UK) so I can try and interpret the names for you.

I think Arduino derives from Arduo which sort of mean hardy, yea not a terrific name.

I must say i spent a long time trying to wade my way through assembly being told not to use anything else, and Dave you right its bollocks ! I just wasted time thanks to some idiots, I now use mikroe basic and its great on pics, I get most projects up and running quite quickly and if microchip start being unreasonable (like ripping us off with pickit3) i can port to another chip, I'd never try assembler again, free from mind bogglness and easy to move.

[jshanab]

Where do they come up with those names (and how do you bloddy pronouce it anyway)

  http://www.freeduino.org/duino.html

Sometimes there is a method to their madness.