[sdiy] MAPLE Board?

[Mikko Helin]

There are many kits available these days with the some brand Cortex-M3
chip on them. M3's have some SRAM (like 64kB - not much) and largish
flash (512kB) but are not not particulary sexy. Add some SRAM, FPGA,
stereo audio CODEC and MIDI interface and you'll get this:

http://members.cox.net/ebrombaugh1/synth/armfpga/index.html

I've got the Red Code's LPCXpresso kit (cheap, seems I keep collecting
those <$30 kits for my senior days to come) but haven't got time for
it (studying dsPIC33F's now, next one will be the TI's TMS320F28069
FPU MC/DSC). MBED LPC1768 in similar one, and then there are some from
Olimex, like this one with an LCD touch screen:

http://www.olimex.com/dev/stm32-lcd.html

Add an audio CODEC and MIDI (header's include I2S pins) and you are
ready to go. Imagine what you could do with that touch screen (like if
you are into wavetable synthesis).

Arduino is a clever idea including the boot loader (no need for
programmer) and has large community supporting and using the
technonogy today. That's why everyone trying to get to market compares
and advertises own products to get popularity but it doesn't work that
way. Btw. there another wannabe Arduino ARM: the Cortino:
http://www.bugblat.com/products/cor.html Haven't heard before. IMHO
there will not be another Arduino soon, unless the same community give
birth to such one. Can be sure it hasn't got an ARM chip on board
anyway. Let's see.

- Mikko

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, dan snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> anyone here using the MAPLE  board? with an ARM chip and "arduino style libraries" it sounds interesting. however i worry that there isnt much support out there or many other users
> but the specs sure look great!
>
> thanks
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