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color=#0000ff size=2>Any of these things available with network (CAT5
TCP/IP) connectivity built in? (Even if only at 10mbps)
They'd be great for shack remote control and home automation.
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color=#0000ff size=2>Dave G0WBX.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Brian B. Riley [mailto:brianbr@mac.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 January 2009 15:19<BR><B>To:</B> TAPR APRS Mailing
List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aprssig] APRS / Packet board for
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<DIV></DIV> 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
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<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>
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