[sdiy] arduino-compatible cortex m3 from ladyada

[Tom Arnold]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:16:30AM -0700, Jason Proctor wrote:
> http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/08/22/maple-prototype/
> 
> interesting....

Yeah, this is something I've been pondering.

Arduino is a rudementary hardware spec with a bootloader and gcc wrapped up
with some java.  Okay, and some libraries.

Its pretty trivial to make up something that works and acts just like
Arduino, but under a different architecture.

For the ARM CPU I really like ( the Analog Devices ADuC series ) making it
work with the actual Arduino software distribution would be as simple as
replacing avrdude with aducloader.  Swapping out avrgcc for gnuarm. 
tweaking the libraries.  Okay, I may be overstating the simplicity of that
last one...

What makes Arduino so special isn't that it was a huge technological
achievement.  Some people realised that all the tools were out there and
that if they wrapped them up in a package the whole would be so much greater
then the sum of the parts.  Genius, but beyond the libraries, not that far
from a well written makefile and vi ( my aduc makefiles call aducloader and
everything now that I found it.  Before I had to run the DOS app using
wine and that was rather special ).  Now if Limor&Friends have ported the
libraries to ARM....  thats kinda a Whoa...

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