What's Up with "Wiring"?

erco

Just saw these "Wiring" modules on Ebay and wondered if anyone had any experience with them. I certainly don't need another brand of software and IDE, but I want to be aware of them. I see "sketches, artists, and open source". Somewhat Arduino-ish?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wiring-Mini-Kits-/270935122297

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform)

http://www.wiring.org.co/about.html

Gadgetman

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it's probably a duck...

If you read the wiki, it seems this is somewhat of a precursor to the Arduino that refused to disappear.

If you check the book list on the org.co site you'll notice that there's only 3 books there, and that none of them are exactly new...

LoopyByteloose

From what I understand, Arduino was inspired as an improvement over Wiring. This might be a step backward into less of a user community and less support.

Martin_H

Wiring was a precursor to the Arduino project, and was used with Processing which was a simplified Java environment. Note that the microcontroller wasn't programmed in Java, but serial data was exchanged with it by the host computer.

The Arduino guys took the Processing IDE and reworked it into their IDE, and they took the wiring library and used it as the core of their library. In the process they changed the focus from programs running on the host computer to programs running on the microcontroller. The copyright for Processing appears at the startup for their IDE, and in the Arduino library code.

This legacy code is part of the reason for some of the squirrelly parts of the Arduino library, which is object oriented in places and function based in others.

LoopyByteloose

In other words, Arduino borrowed a lot, added a little, and made it into what it is. That's all perfectly okay in Open Source code.