We’ve been receiving lots of emails and forum posts asking about when we’ll have new Maples in stock, and when the Maple Mini will be out. So far, we’ve just been responding “as soon as we can get them to you!”; here are some more details on why there have been delays.
Regarding the Maple, we received word from our manufacturer over the weekend that the yield rate on the new Maple runs was unacceptably low. The failure rate was traced down to bad button connections. We’re working with them as much as possible to discover how the problem arose, and how to prevent it in the future.
The first batch of Maple Minis has been manufactured, but it’s taken a little longer than we anticipated to get the test procedure up, running, and streamlined. These issues were resolved with changes to our testing documentation, and a generalized “test session” program (which was made public in this libmaple commit). This revised test program should be sufficient to accommodate all future Maple-style boards. To the best of our knowledge, the Minis are currently undergoing testing at the manufacturer.
We will continue to keep you updated with any news as it arrives. Thanks to everyone for your patience!
Soon, someone with more equipment (and certainly more talent) than I have will replace these pictures with some real photos. But, a *few* Maple Mini’s came back from fab today and I just couldn’t help myself. I only had two lenses, a 500mm telephoto and some other zoom lens (200mm?) – point being I had to take these while standing about 6 feet away. Enjoy the day’s eye candy!
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Our Maple Mini prototypes have passed our internal testing, so we’ve sent the current design off for production. This means they’ll be up for sale as soon as they’re manufactured. We’re excited about getting Mini into your hands, and will be sure to update when they’re up for sale!
We’ve just launched our own wiki at http://wiki.leaflabs.com. The decision was brought about because of a thread on our forums in support of a wiki for everyone to contribute to. Well…we think its a good idea too!
We’d like to invite everyone interested to register at our new wiki and contribute their experiences. It’s a free-for-all at the moment, but we may nominate a few of our more helpful community members to be moderators in the near future.
Thank you for the feedback, and remember to edit responsibly.
Hey all,
Maple IDE 0.0.9 just came out. Here’s a changelog:
- Revamped documentation
- Ports for more Arduino core language functions: interrupts(), noInterrupts()
- Added single-byte “B10110011″ style defines, for Arduino compatibility
- New core language functions: toggleLED(), togglePin(), isButtonPressed(), waitForButtonPress()
- New timer methods
- Servo library
- A community-contributed library for EEPROM emulation (thanks, x893!)
Additionally, we’ve added support in libmaple for the Maple Mini.
We’re also releasing an alpha port of the WiShield library at:
http://static.leaflabs.com/pub/leaflabs/labs/WiShield.zip
[That link will move once the port is more advanced]. It’s not feature-complete, and is still buggy, but is capable of connecting to an access point and serving a web page.
With this release out, our immediate bug targets on the software front are the Windows upload issue and the SerialUSB bugs on large reads and writes. After those critical bugs are triaged, we’ll release them as an incremental IDE release before resuming our normal development on the upcoming serial bootloader and IDE rewrite.
On the hardware front, we’re finalizing Maple Mini, and moving forward on Oak. More news as it happens!
Our shipment of Maple Rev 5s have finally arrived! We’ll be shipping them out tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who ordered for your patience.
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