Good news, everyone! The first batch of Maple Minis have arrived, and we’ve released Maple IDE 0.0.11 to officially support them!
While we’ve got a whole bundle of them on the way, the first hundred boards came early (long story). To celebrate, we’re going to be selling these first hundred at the low low price of $24.99, $10 off the usual price ($34.99 for those of us who are bad at math). So hurry to the store and get yours right away!
If you’re new to LeafLabs and this is the first you’re hearing about the Mini, head to the devices page for more information. (The Mini’s hardware docs page has all the gory details). Don’t forget, you’ll need to grab the 0.0.11 IDE in order to play with the Mini.
The wiki will be down for a short time while we install new plug-ins.
Update: the wiki is back up, but we’re going to defer some work on it until later.
That’s right, the newest release of the Maple IDE is hot out of the oven, and ready for you to download.
This feature-packed release includes a ton of new stuff; see the 0.0.10 Beta post for all the juicy details.
Finally, a quick note: there were a few last-minute tweaks we made to the lowest-level layers of libmaple which advanced users of the 0.0.10 Beta may want to take a look at; more after the jump.
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Check out the promo video
Over the past year, we have been accumulating a strong list of distributors. Today we are very excited to add SparkFun (US) and Watterott Electronic (Germany) to this group!
We have tried our best to choose our distributors carefully and get a good distribution around the globe, so you may want to check out our distributors page to find your favorite online depot or discover a distributor in your region (and save on those VAT taxes!)
Some great pieces of news:
One of our goals with libmaple and the Maple IDE is to support ST’s rather extensive line of 32 bit Cortex M3 processors. Towards this end, and with the community’s input, libmaple has been completely refactored over the past few months. This work is finally ready for a beta release!
To demonstrate libmaple’s newfound flexibility, we have also decided to put a new board on sale, the Maple RET6 Edition. This more powerful processor has over 3 times the RAM and 4 times the Flash memory than the processor on the Maple. Thanks to the refactor effort, we were able to easily add support for this new chip into the Maple IDE. We are only making a limited number of these Maple RET6 Edition boards, so go buy one! More info after the jump.
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A couple of days ago, our thriving forums hit 4000 posts. We thought that was pretty cool, and we also thought that with the forums moving so quickly these days, it could be easy to miss something really exciting. To help you avoid that tragedy, we’ve decided to start doing Forum Roundups, bringing you all the highlights from the previous week’s forum chatter. Here’s some of the fun stuff that’s been happening in the past week.
- Brushless DC motor drivers using Maple. crenn is working on twin-bladed vertical take-off and landing for a class project. You can see a video of the motor being driven here.
- Silntknight is using a Maple to control the valves on a Briggs & Stratton 3.5 HP engine. There’s a detailed and fascinating discussion of the power electronics involved in this thread.
- anton and ridgebackred work to get the Maple IDE working with the STM32 Discovery board. (Of course we’d rather you buy a Maple…!) You can check out their work here on github.
- Design files for a Maple protoshield board from Adam. Sounds like the boards have been sent off to fab… can’t wait to see how they turn out.
- Buried deep in a thread about Minis (and a whole bunch of other stuff), gbulmer reveals a Maple-influenced robot controller board he’s been working on (thought you could sneak it by us, huh?). You can read his blog post about it here. Very cool.
- From StephenFromNYC, USB Observations Parts I, II, and III. (More than a week old, but worth the read.)
- Much more than a week old, but too cool to not include: Xavier’s FM synth project. You can hear it in action here.
And that’s it for this week’s roundup. Did we miss something awesome? Let us know in the comments.
Crenn's Maple+Xbee+IMU
Xavier's FM Synth
Adam's new Maple Protoshield
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