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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike
The real question is why when there are cheaper processors that are far more capable?
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I think the part you apparently don't understand is that we are not only designing a device to control a heat pump, we are also designing a device that uses the
most popular and widely available hardware and IDE. That would be the Arduino IDE by a long shot. In other words, we are designing to the enormous pool of Arduino users.
In 2013, 700,000 official Arduino boards were in users' hands... That count doesn't even include the uncountable number of clone boards that are being used.
EDIT: Here are some numbers I just now ran...
Code:
Google YouTube
Arduino 41600000 1050000
PIC 2090000 47300
RTOS 4710000 8520
MPLAB X 552000 6790
FreeRTOS 526000 4280
When you look at it as a graph:
The blue bars are Google hits, a sign of curiosity, if not real interest.
The red bars are YouTube hits, which are user-created, are a more accurate indicator of users being actively involved.
I think you, being well educated and technically sophisticated, are only looking at optimum hardware and software solutions and not at the huge established Arduino user population that is internationally established, and may not have access to hardware or any experience at all with any of the hardware and software combinations that you insist on suggesting.
If you are interested in this particular effort, please lend a hand. If you are not interested in helping with this particular effort, you do have a thread,
Designing an Advanced Heat Pump Controller where you can prove your point by creating a superior design.
In other words,
put your talent where your talk is.
-AC