Been hacking on a Lilypad when I can, and the mbed looks quite handy for wearable computing. However, the claim by the ARM guy that this "... should open micr

Been hacking on a Lilypad when I can, and the mbed looks quite handy for wearable computing. However, the claim by the ARM guy that this "... should open microcontrollers up to a new audience by removing some of the technical headaches associated with programming the chips" sounds odd when you consider that mbed requires you to code in C++ while Arduino allows the use of Processing. Worse, the C++ compiler is Web-based. That might be handy at times, but needing an Internet connection to hack on some hardware seems to be yet one more obstacle. I have to believe there's a way to do this all locally, but poking around the mbed site I didn't see it.