[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Robert Nickels]

On 8/25/2016 8:12 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
> The young experimenters I know are into software projects, not hardware these days.
The Arduino and Raspberry Pi are leading a new revolution.   MAKE 
Magazine is the new Popular-Whatever, but with much broader range of 
applications than ever.
> I don't blame them. Hardware modules are cheap today and it isn't easy working with surface mount devices.

Absolutely right.  Hardly a day goes by without my ordering components 
or modules from Chinese vendors and the selection and value is amazing. 
   It's up to us to figure out clever things to do with these 
inexpensive mass-produced building-blocks. Kickstarter has become the 
engine that drives the best ideas out of the basement and into the 
marketplace, for example there's another $5 Linux computer called Omega 
2 that is one-quarter the size of a credit card, and which just raised 
$672K.   I know this isn't the place to talk about making radios using 
software, but there's no doubt that "makers" are combining software with 
this kind of inexpensive hardware to do lots of incredible things.

73, Bob W9RAN