[Noisebridge-discuss] ARMduino: A 72 MHz ARM based implementation of the Arduino physical computing platform.

[Corey McGuire]

I just read about this interesting take on Arduino.  The Maple Leaf board is
not just an ARM Cortex-M3 system that is pin compatible with Arduino
Shields, but it is also an attempt to get Arduino code compiled and running
on an ARM chip via the same comfortable Arduino IDE that has become popular.

http://leaflabs.com/Maple

<http://leaflabs.com/Maple>The take away from this is, AVR guru's be damned,
the Arduino platform has transcended a single architecture and is ready to
leap to more powerful physical computing systems.  The leap, hopefully, will
be as trivial as a recompile and bidirectional.  This also means that
Arduino might start to become a viable platform for realtime system
programming made easy.  It may be a large leap of speculation, but this may
take us away from the complexity of ARM based Linux systems and pricey real
time Linux adaptations when working with simple embedded systems.

The ARM Cortex-M3 is a recent addition to the ARM family, compatible with
the Cortex series, but lower power, less sophisticated, and cheaper.  Being
70MHz, 32bit, and having a hardware divide, this is a huge boost of
performance over the ATMega systems.

Of course, it is probably far more powerful than the work most people would
load on to an Arduino, and, as such, there may be a precious few sold to
us hobbyists.  Still, there is always someone out there trying to find a way
to do things faster, so here you go.
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