Comments on: What's the deal with pre-ordering?

By: poslathian

poslathian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:34:23 +0000

The STM32W looks like a neat chip, but…and correct me if I’m wrong, ST hasn’t announced a version yet that runs above 8MHz…which makes me cry a little inside. However, we’re strongly considering throwing this onto a shield to be a generic wireless interconnect. Also up for debate is native wireless support on Oak…should it be bluetooth, xbee, non existent?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:59:16 +0000

Does anyone know if the forums are working? I, along with about 200 others it seems, have all viewed the various fora but are unable to post anything in them.

By: ewertz

ewertz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:21:49 +0000

Er, 17999 years… that’ll teach me to do math in my head while laughing that hard.

By: Bryon

Bryon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:09:51 +0000

I know you haven’t even shipped your first board yet, and I feel terrible asking but I noticed that ST has a new processor – STM32W, with the “W” designating on-board wireless and I was wondering if you have given any thought to making this chip available in the Maple? I sound really greedy, don’t I…

By: okie

okie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:31:56 +0000

Mitch, Maple Native is going to be made to make using the STM32 as easy as possible. So the pins will be labeled according to their names in the STM32 datasheet (PA1, PA2, etc.), and we will label the peripherals (SPI, USART, I2C, etc.) that are available on each pin. What Arduino did with the Atmega168 is what we plan to do with Maple Native. First, we take all of the processor’s basic functionality and wrap it up into a function library that’s simple and consistent enough to store in your head after using it a couple times, and then we make the board so that you almost never have to look at a datasheet or documentation for a code library that is hundreds of pages long.

By: poslathian

poslathian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:48:38 +0000

Ughhhh, mega fail on the out of stock issue. I’m all for going out of stock 3 minutes after opening the page up for orders, but instead paypal was just misleading us! Anyway, limited stock available, and the page is working now, the first board run has been submitted for manufacture, hooray!