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| Posted: 06:47pm 27 Feb 2012 |
thanks for the nice words :)
I will confess that before we made this board I spent some time to read the Arduino forum and the Arduino users feedback, so we just listened and implemented what Arduino users wanted but had not in Arduino 2009.
Vasi, AVR Mega are obsolete now, even Arduino Due ARM9 board will get obsolete until they release it.
In March we will launch the super-duper Cortex M4 168 Mhz STM32F407ZGT6 which have 1MB Flash and 196K RAM in Arduino compatible layout for EURO 30 retail.
There is interest in few developers from Maple community who are ready to implement the library support, there is already bootloader for F4, by end of March this board will be for sale and it outperforms Mega, Due, probably Tre too
Cortex M4 have floating points and F4 is really powerful, Arduino team problem is that they too much follow Atmel and didn't look around what else is available when they decided to move to more powerful hardware