Happy Holidays Everyone!
We have gotten reports that Maple’s are being delivered and several users have successfully gotten Blinky style programs running from the IDE. This is great news! Here is a short update.
We are currently working on a getting started guide, detailing how to build/install the IDE and use it to program Maple. This being the Holiday weekend, the timing could have been better, but we hope to have this tutorial up late Tuesday evening. After a bit of turbulence with a broken repository, we have migrated the latest changes to the library into the IDE and it builds successfully on linux and windows. Unfortunately, there remains an issue on mac OSX involving dfu-util, the program used to load new firmware onto the STM32.
Support for using Serial.print() to write to the UART ports is complete, however this function does not mirror the data to the USB port (which acts as a virtual serial port on the host machine). This functionality exists, but hasn’t been integrated into the library yet.
We are working to integrate the various dependencies of the IDE into simple installers on windows and linux, hopefully this will be completed in the next few days. For now, however, the IDE can be built manually from the repository at leaflabs.googlecode.com, following the standard instructions on arduino.cc (for building the IDE). In addition, the IDE depends on dfu-util, which can be obtained through most package repositories for linux or from openmoko.org.
Thank you for your patience and support, we hope you enjoy getting started with your new Maple. Please do check on the website later this week for further updates about installers and the getting started guide. We look forward to your feedback!
Hey all–
Maples are in the mail; hopefully they will arrive this weekend for you residents of America out there, and some time next week for the international folks. Our software will be up within the next few days, just in time to get started hacking on your boards.
Our very own Jewish Santa, shipping Maples to all the good boys and girls.
So thanks for bearing with us, and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Killer Kwanzaa, and A yuley Yule to all of you.
We’ll hopefully be shipping the pre-orders the end of next week.
Here’s a picture of some Maple boards a couple days ago before assembly. Oh my gosh I’m so excited too!
Evidence that at least one component has been placed on one board:
In the middle of October we shipped the Maple components off to Gold Pheonix for assembly. It was an exciting day and we could hardly wait the two weeks to see the finished product. As we tracked our package across the world our excitement turned to panic. The components spent a few stagnant days in customs – I naively called this “customs glitch.” Days turned to weeks, our 15 day turnaround went from a plan to a fantasy to an impossibility. However, I am pleased to copy below the update i posted on the home page:
After a VERY long stint in customs, Gold Pheonix has FINALLY received the components for assembly [sometime between friday afternoon and monday morning]. We expect a one week turn around on this. We had originally allocated 15 days lead time for manufacturing our first run of 100 Maples – due to bureaucratic overhead and some naivete on our part, 15 days proved to be a massive underestimate. However, were are pleased to learn that the first run of Maple’s are currently under the pick and place being assembled!. We offer our sincerest apologies for the delay. To those who have contacted us directly about this issue, thanks for your understanding and support!
Silly customs glitched our release timing going on 9 days now! ugh! We’ve been using the extra days to polish up the arduino-port. The principle hiccups have been portability on mac/linux/windows. We usually play in linux, so thats the trivial build. However, Maple depends on dfu-util (from openMoko) and arm-eabi-gcc (codesourcery) and getting these to play nice on the other platforms has been headache. Fear not, all will be righted in the coming days. Were sorry for the delay, the second we’ve got a base application for you to play with were going to open it up to the open source community to hack on. For now, its just a smash-up of arduino and our stm32 build environment, but we hope that together we can make it oh so much more!
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