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   bubulindo
   Member

   Browsing through Hackaday I found this:

   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1883701526/matchboxarm

   Seems interesting, although the lack of IDE might be a deal breaker for some.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   bnewbold
   Ex-Leaflabs

   HMM! A little weird that they 'shopped out the MCU vendor/MPN.

   We used Gold Phoenix back in the day... not horrible (for the price), but not the smoothest process either.

   Sorry to hear they think the Maple is not easy enough to use but that the Cortex-M3 is easy for a beginner. These chips have a lot of features and complexity!

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   mlundinse
   Member

   Yeah, have you not heard that Cortex-M3 is WAY EASIER to use than the STM32F1 line of processors. ARM is the way to go !!

   Well seriously, this totally looks like a STM32, check the port pin names and the corresponding funtions on the "war Horse"

   Wonder whar kind of 'easy' development environment the are building. Looks like an ok
   board but a few years behind the competition.

   And just below their Kickstarter presentation is a link to the Teens 3 project, as small as theirs, a CM4 processor, proven track record and quite good support.

   /Magnus

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   gbulmer
   Moderator

   I do 'dither' on these boards. It looks like an STM32 with an mbed-like bootloader; mbed looks like 'flash memory' for the loader. IMHO that is an excellent way to make loading simple for the user.

   My concerns are:
   1. It doesn't claim to be open source hardware, so I assume it isn't
   2. It doesn't mention the license of the bootloader, so I assume it isn't open source
   3. It identifies coocox as the IDE, but that only runs on Windows
   4. The bootloader is a dual device (flash and serial), so might not work on other platforms (much has been posted here, and around the net about USB devices with 'two interfaces)
   So it is far from ideal for me.

   However, I think if they can get £7,000 (GBP) to fund manufacture a large enough batch to offer a reasonable price, then good. Having a few thousand more people using the STM32 for 'maker' projects is likely a good thing.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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