Hey Stephen,
This looks like a really cool way to cut deployment costs.
You have the benefits of the Arduino development environment with the
low cost of deployment.
You cannot overstate the benefits of the Arduino IDE for speeding up
development.
As an example - see the following video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcl5rLuowQ&context=C347e5deADOEgsToPDskLmYmW_0zsKA_lMg7dMm_FA
It took about a day to get it working because I was overusing the
pins.
I did the same thing on an ARM and it took about a week.
We are working on a few advanced classes. Please send your
suggestions.
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