Giving the propeller some love?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:37 pm
Hey All,
I was just wondering why Sparkfun doesn't carry any Propeller gear. While I understand that coding the Propeller can be a little more involved, (Oh and it is 3.3v) some of its features are pretty rock awesome. For the speed and the audio/video synthesis options that it offers, I can think of a lot of projects that could be a lot cheaper on a propeller than an Arduino. For example I made a door bell that played back wav files using just the propeller board, and didn't have to buy any external ic's to handle the data.
Just saying, for the right applications it seems pretty neat.
Thoughts?
I was just wondering why Sparkfun doesn't carry any Propeller gear. While I understand that coding the Propeller can be a little more involved, (Oh and it is 3.3v) some of its features are pretty rock awesome. For the speed and the audio/video synthesis options that it offers, I can think of a lot of projects that could be a lot cheaper on a propeller than an Arduino. For example I made a door bell that played back wav files using just the propeller board, and didn't have to buy any external ic's to handle the data.
Just saying, for the right applications it seems pretty neat.
Thoughts?