Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Another potential Arduino-killer on the block

Though a bit delayed, the Galago project I backed on Kickstarter last year finally started shipping, and I received my boards yesterday.  I am really excited to start playing with them, and soldered up the ethernet and led app boards today at work.  Check them out!



Arduino is great because of the solid user base.  Arduino sucks because of the "development environment" that makes debugging really just an exercise in patience as you pepper print statements throughout your code.  Galago aims to improve things by offering hardware debugging.  Once I get the tools in place, it will be interesting to see how it compares to other platforms that support debugging like Launchpad, Netduino, and the various PIC micros.

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