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JohnS
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Posted: 08:19pm 09 Feb 2012

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The Soldercore as hardware looks not as good as a Duinomite, but costs about 3 times as much. Maybe twice what the Duinomite eMega will cost?

It isn't as far as I can see inherently any faster (but see the next sentence).

The CoreBASIC sounds better than MMBasic.

It doesn't look compelling to me.

I don't see how it would be better for fifan than any Duinomite (whether eMega or not).

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paul_l_curtis
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Posted: 02:41pm 07 Mar 2012

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JohnS said The Soldercore as hardware looks not as good as a Duinomite, but costs about 3 times as much. Maybe twice what the Duinomite eMega will cost?

Sure, it doesn't have the physical size of the Duinomite; but then it's not supposed to compete with a Duinomite; it is a decision to limit the size of it.

Quote It isn't as far as I can see inherently any faster (but see the next sentence).

Core speed is 80MHz. However, the interpreter is much faster than StickOS or MMBasic or DM-BASIC. And it offers complex numbers, quaternions, flexible arrays, full string processing, matrix maths... Think you'll never need quaternions? Well, perhaps not, but they come in real useful for balancing robots, motion stabilization, and running quadcopters which you can't do with a Duinomite.

Quote The CoreBASIC sounds better than MMBasic.

The philosophy of CoreBASIC is much different from MMBasic. DM-BASIC seems to have a philosophy of "I need something else, I'll add a keyword to do it". CoreBASIC doesn't do that; extensions are provided by installable drivers.

Quote It doesn't look compelling to me.

Then don't buy it! But the built-in drivers for multiple LCDs, LED arrays, and so on, are all "just the same thing", a graphics display plane. But then, can DM-BASIC do 3D processing? Can it do 9DOF sensor fusion from arbitrary magnetometer, accelerometer, and gyroscope?

The value is not in the small set of keywords that CoreBASIC provides, but in the wealth of tested drivers for non-nonsense programming that CoreBASIC has.

I have a different philosophy for the development of SolderCore and CoreBASIC.

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