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Interesting to see Arduino getting into ARM. The LeafLabs Maple always appealed to me way more than Arduino because of the beefy STM32 ARM processor it comes wi
by rryan 15y ago
Interesting to see Arduino getting into ARM. The LeafLabs Maple always appealed to me way more than Arduino because of the beefy STM32 ARM processor it comes with. (Well, also because their libraries, team, and documentation are all top-notch). It will be interesting to see how much ARM catches on among hobbyists now that it has the weight of the Arduino brand behind it.
- Gussy 15y agoIt's a huge shame that none of the existing ARM Cortex M3 Arduino-like platforms (Maple, Corduino etc.) ever took off. While this is mostly likely because of the projects not being officially endorsed by Arduino, it does also make you wonder if there is actually a demand for this higher level of capability. I have a bad feeling that offering a much more powerful Arduino will only result in people writing more inefficient code. Moving into ARM territory was always inevitable for Arduino, it has just taken a little longer than it should have, because Atmel were a little behind the curve in getting their Cortex M3 offerings onto the table. What does surprise me is that it has taken this long for Atmel to step in and offer some support to Arduino.
- sliverstorm 15y agoI have a bad feeling that offering a much more powerful Arduino will only result in people writing more inefficient code. I'm sure the ARM-duino JVM & the Ruby interptreter is right around the corner :/
- sliverstorm 15y agoIt's really too bad they didn't use STM32 parts. STMicro has a really nice line of Cortex M3 chips, and some of the best development libraries I've been able to find for these cores. As for problems the ARM-duino might run into- one of the attractions of the Arduino is you can get away with very little code, and there are many pre-written libraries. This is not the case with the Cortex M3, which is a pretty sophisticated device as far as 'embedded' goes.