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A new, more powerful alternative to the Arduino

I happened upon this new Rapid Prototyping microcontroller board on hackaday. It's the same idea as the Arduino, but more powerful:

http://mbed.org/tour/

mbed pinout

Some features include:

  • up to 25 digital I/O pins
  • up to 6 analog inputs
  • one analog output
  • up to 6 PWM outputs
  • multiple serial interfaces
  • built-in USB
  • built-in ethernet
  • runs on 4.5V to 9V
  • based on the ARM7 microcontroller
  • 40mA drive capability on each pin, up to 400mA total
  • programmed in C++
  • all built into a bread-board ready 40 pin "DIP" package

Other neat features are the fact that the development environment is all online, so you can work on your project on any computer. The mbed shows up on the computer much like a USB thumb drive - just drag new firmware onto it and it's uploaded automatically!

Very cool.

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  • By Anonymous at 07/23/2010 - 22:17
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PIC Programming

I would like to create a PIC Program library.
It would be a resource for anyone to get to use and program these devices. Here are several suggestions:

Weather Monitoring, Voltage and Current Power supply,
Low level infrared recorder, transmitter, and receiver,
Servo control system for remote video camera, LED light control systems.

Reminds me of the xduino project :)

For those interested, XDuino is a port of the arduino boot loader and complete language over to the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. Basically giving the arduino system one hell of a shot in the ARM :)

Lots of Power, Lots of I/O, Lots of serial, ease of use of Arduino. I am checking the project out and will let everyone know how it works.