<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> I have been selling Freeduino (fully Arduino compatible alternative systems) for coming up on two years now and watched the ham percentage of my clientele rise from almost nothing to about 20%. Its really is the next step up from the Basic Stamp/PICAXE world, with far more power at your fingertips. The high level libraries in existence for Arduino make it trivial to do many complex actions that you couldn't begin to do on a 'basic stamp' -like processor ... and I think most hams would be thrilled to have floating point math available after all the kluges we have been doing for years with stamps and integer arithmetic<div><br></div><div> < <a href="http://www.wulfden.org/TheShoppe/freeduino/index.shtml">http://www.wulfden.org/TheShoppe/freeduino/index.shtml</a>><br><div><br></div><div>The Arduino IDE is amazingly robust and stable in Winders, MacOSX, and LInux, especially when you see that the code team still calls it Alpha code! Its written in Java and is more or less the same across all three platforms. Its got a lot to offer the ham world.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Matt Murphy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Scott that is a great idea! I was wondering when a resourceful ham would do some work with the Arduino. I have always wanted to play with the Arduino but didn't really have anything to use it with. Now I may. I just need to free up some more time in my 36 hour day :-)<br> <br>Can't wait to see it going!<br clear="all"><br>73,<br>Matt Murphy, kc8bew<br><a href="http://mcares.kc8bew.net">http://mcares.kc8bew.net</a><br>Muskingum Co. ARES EC<br></blockquote></div></div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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