ARM SBC in arduino form factor?

Googling "arduino arm" turned up a few things, this included:

Mel.

Thank you - I did use google, but I added shields, peripherals etc. to filter out too many unrelated hits (like "arduino robot arm") and I missed these two. The leaflabs boards look interesting.

-- Roberto Waltman

You asked an interesting question, even though it hadn't occurred to me; I like the leaflab boards too; I'll remember them. I'm a bit down on Arduino for a reason that I mentioned here before -- at least one shield board I find "over-packaged" and inflexible. The Ardumoto board here is working fine: lots of fun walking a stepper motor into resonance failure, and contemplating what a stepper sequencer has to do, but it won't scale beyond one shield per system without some major carving. Sometimes a shield is exactly what I want, and instantly available, and that's great; but given that I will get pushed into board building eventually, I'm just as apt to use STAMP-format boards for proof-of-concept; they're frequently cheaper.

Mel.

mbed

seems to be a good match for you. mbed is based on the LPC1768 MCU from NXP and is actually smaller than Arduino UNO. The biggest innovation of mbed is the Cloud-based development environment. The entire system?editor, compiler, libraries, and reference materials?are completely web-based. There is no software to install or maintain on the host system.

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Station wagon --> Crossover Big iron --> cloud-based

It's all in how it's marketed. ;-)

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

Seems like a very bad idea. What if you need to make some changes a few years later, and the (original) environment is no longer available ?

I'd rather go through the extra effort of installing the tools locally.

There are other tools that work with the mbed, using the same code.

Leon

I dont have this entire thread handy right now, but my suggestion is the leaf labs maple.