Zarduino™ Land
I came very late to the party, only becoming aware of the Arduino™ phenomenon in mid-2011. There seem to be nearly as many Arduino™ compatibles, copy-cats, clones and clowns as there are Linux distributions. So, here are my contributions to the chaos.
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Arduino™ compatible system boards
Being 70 years old and with health that has gone so far south that it is locked in Antarctic ice, I am reluctant to undertake learning another computer language. For READ (Rapid Embedded Application Development) I have long preferred ZBasic™ which, at least at the chip level, was Arduino-ish before there was Arduino™. So, I designed Arduino™ compatible system boards for some ZBasic™ chips in order that I and other ZBasic™ users can have easy access to the myriad of shields developed for the Arduino™. Since ZBasic™ also uses Atmel AVR™ chips (with a proprietary serial bootloader), it was fairly simple to make my Zarduino™ system boards pin-compatible with Arduino™ with the exception of the 40-pin system boards which are mostly pin-compatible except for the 12 extra pins. On 28-pin systems A4 and A5 are also SDA and SCL; on 40-pin systems, SDA and SDA occupy those positions with A4 and A5 moved to a header that only exists on 40-pin systems. NOTE: The YourDuino Mega1280 and YourDuino Mega2560 are not my designs but are included below because we plan to port roZetta™ to them.
Here's an overview of the roZetta™/Zarduino™ stack.
Note that not all features of the various system boards and shields will be available for roZetta™. Some are included so that Arduino™ aficionados and others might make use of them when creating their own applications to use the hardware. Some may later be supported for roZetta™. For example, if PureBasic adds USB functions that work in Windows, Linux & OSX, I can add USB Peripheral support. roZetta™ users should ask beforehand about specific features not covered in the roZetta™ User Manual. I do plan an Android app that will allow command and control via WiFi and Bluetooth.
