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

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

Audio and video processing would be feasible with this board, I think.
More capable than my old Korg Entrancer.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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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