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| Posted: 02:31pm 29 Feb 2012 |
although not a Due etc... I think my fave has to be the Digilent Chipkit UNO32.
the IDE is almost identical, the board takes all due Arduino shields, the programming code for it is transportable from arduino (the libraries differ somewhat), and its got extra pins and is over 5x faster.
it`s a nice step into a New controller (PIC32) other than Atmel, it will take "grown up" code too.
a genuinely nice segway into more advanced code and applications.
I expect the Pinguino may be similar, although I don`t know anything about it`s IDE yet, I may get one later on in the year when I finish my current projects.
I personally like the Due, as I can pop the 328p out and program a new one, this gets impossible with SMT devices.
each board has their own good points I guess ;)