On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:23 AM, M.L. <m@lkeng.net> wrote:

> 2. But: It seems like a lot of people who wouldn't have the background
> to get into electronics for whatever reason are able to do really cool
> things using the Arduino.
>

And this single factor is good enough for its existence.

The open source nature of Arduino helps a lot for its
popularity as well.

Want to use PIC-duino? ;-)

http://justanotherlanguage.org/content/jaluino
http://hackinglab.org/pinguino/index_pinguino.html

Or Arm-duio? :-)
http://www.xduino.com/platform/arm-cortex-m3/
http://www.bugblat.com/products/cor.html
http://blogs.leaflabs.com/2009/07/arduino-cortex-m3-maple/

I am actually looking at this one since the author was a
leading developer of OpenOCD at one time.
http://arttools.blogspot.com/2009/09/using-stm32-based-board-for-arduino.html
(code here http://github.com/mlu/arduino-stm32)


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