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(@nikkikilled)
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Hi! I wanted to start learning Arduino, so before buying a motherboard, I would like to practice programming this board. At first, I practice on wokwi, but its arsenal turned out to be meager. So I have a question, are there any worthy alternatives to the wokwi simulator?

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 11:08 pm
marcdraco
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Not that I'm personally familiar with (although I expect they exist commercially).  Arduino puts a layer of "simplicity" (a sort of abstraction) on top of normal C/C++ so the debuggers, etc. that I'm familiar with don't "do" Arduino if that makes sense.

A real Arduino clone built in China - albeit with poorer quality parts isn't that costly and there's a lot to learn from doing it this way. Serial programming or debugging using JTAG is something that's best experienced on the real deal. In fact, the Arduino R4 Minima is virtually pocket-money these days as they have changed to SMD for the CPU. It's also a lot faster and has greatly improved IO with a better ADC, more RAM and SRAM and greatly improved performance. You can pay a little more to get the WiFi version and develop for IOT.

The only thing with this board is it lacks the current drive of the ATMega so you can't drive a lot of LEDs, for example but other than that it's a massive improvement.

https://thepihut.com/products/arduino-uno-r4-minima

This post was modified 3 weeks ago by marcdraco


Take everything I say with a pinch of salt, I might be wrong and it's a very *expensive* way to learn!

 
Posted : 18/01/2025 12:48 pm