Microsoft Windows Desktop Meets Arduino： A Maker’s Dream？

　　制造者社區(qū)充滿了新思想。許多都是基于技術(shù)的使用，并提供新的方式提供和提供服務(wù)。其他人打開了許多人的生活，他們的想法以前沒有想過。對于這些想法的火花，使產(chǎn)品設(shè)計從紙面到現(xiàn)實的挑戰(zhàn)可能是艱巨的。創(chuàng)業(yè)者意識到先進入市場至關(guān)重要，這就決定了快速發(fā)展階段。嵌入式單板計算機（SBC），如Arduino、Raspberry Pi和BeagleBone Black，已經(jīng)迅速成為許多制造商的首選平臺。決定絕大多數(shù)使用Linux作為操作系統(tǒng)的選擇。然而，雖然在設(shè)計中包含了大量的靈活性和特性，但是Linux在啟動時確實需要相當程度的熟悉，并且很可能阻止那些使用開源操作系統(tǒng)的人不那么自信。Arduino是一個例外，它不使用一個操作系統(tǒng)。這，然而，不以任何方式限制Arduino的信譽帶來的簡單性和易于編程到真實世界的接口在嵌入式設(shè)計的挑戰(zhàn)。非常受歡迎的在制造商社區(qū)，特別是對那些新的電子產(chǎn)品，Arduino已經(jīng)重新點燃在業(yè)余電子的興趣，反過來，負責點火背后的許多新產(chǎn)品創(chuàng)意的想象力。

　　When it comes to developing a new product， the challenge for many makers is how to prototype a product that combines the very best of what Arduino offers with the user and application familiarity of Microsoft? Windows. Offering a host of connectivity options such as SPI， I2C and UART， together with GPIO， PWM and ADC peripherals， there is no doubt that Arduino provides an extremely credible and capable way of getting a design connected to and sensing the real world. From an application development perspective， it is highly likely you are more versed with developing desktop applications using the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE with languages such as C#， Java and Python rather than Linux. Until recently there wasn’t a straightforward way to integrate the different domains of Windows Desktop and Arduino， but an SBC called LattePanda from DFRobot promises to do just that （Figure 1）.