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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
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!
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