DUE ARM-powered Arduino

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DUE ARM-powered Arduino @ Hack a Day.

Far removed from the legions of 3D printers featured at this year’s Maker Faire in New York was a much smaller, but far more impressive announcement: The ARM-powered Arduino DUE is going to be released later this month.

Instead of the 8-bit AVR microcontrollers usually found in Arduinos, the DUE is powered by an ATSAM3X8E microcontroller, itself based on the ARM Cortex-M3 platform. There are a few very neat features in the DUE, namely a USB On The Go port to allow makers and tinkerers to connect keyboards, mice, smartphones (hey, someone should port IOIO firmware to this thing), and maybe even standard desktop inkjet or laser printers.

More @ Hackaday and a PDF. RobotGrrl has a lot of photos too.

Filed under: arduino — by adafruit, posted October 4, 2012 at 7:29 am

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7 Comments

  1. More than HALF of the chips available I/O lines are NOT brought out off the board. What a WASTE!

    Comment by Ken Scharf — October 4, 2012 @ 8:50 am

  2. @ken – can you also say something you *do* like about the DUE? thanks!

    Comment by adafruit — October 4, 2012 @ 8:58 am

  3. @ken

    Keeping the compatibility with the current layout was a more important requirement for us for our first ARM board.
    We’re going to release more products with ARM processors so you will see new form factors that make more pins available .

    (for example we didn’t connect the Ethernet MAC anywhere etc etc)

    If you want you can get a SAM3X-EK from ATMEL, it has every single pin available but it’s not exactly something you can put in your pocket :)
    You can program it with Arduino. You’ll be up and running while ATMEL studio is still downloading :)

    m

    Comment by Massimo Banzi — October 4, 2012 @ 10:57 am

  4. Any idea what the price will be?

    Comment by James P Lynch — October 4, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

  5. Many things to like including the $49USD price tag! Here’s a link to their talk at Maker Faire:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZQt9lTAOU&feature=player_embedded

    Comment by Danh — October 4, 2012 @ 1:52 pm

  6. How about that @Ken likes that he will have money instead to buy ~3 Teensy3′s at the same price…? :-)

    Comment by ewertz — October 4, 2012 @ 4:29 pm

  7. If someone manages to port Arduino on the $12 Cortex-M0+ based Freescale Kinetis K12 Freedom board (http://www.element14.com/community/community/knode/dev_platforms_kits/element14_dev_kits/kinetis_kl2_freedom_board?CMP=KNC-EU-KNODEFreedomBoard)

    Now, that’d be some amazing price-performance, and very hard to beat.

    Comment by Jayanth Acharya — October 11, 2012 @ 9:16 am

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