William \"Chops\" Westfield wrote: > Meanwhile, and perhaps somewhat spurred by this activity, the core > Arduino team got their act together and decided on what they really > wanted ("Arduino" as a trademark, essentially, but truly open source > in other respects), signed up new distributers and released the > official Diecimila (and subsequent version) CAD files promptly. I > think everyone is pretty happy these days; the Freeduino board NKC is > selling occupies a tiny but useful niche (being mostly TH > construction, and available as a kit), and most of the Freeduino-like > vendors are distributing real Arduinos as well. All in all, an > interesting experience. Arduino is an interesting approach to embedded systems in that most of the more recent clones and non atmel support is primarily building on a core library of functions and tend to use common C compilers for code generation. The biggest long term strength will likely be the standardization of development libraries for embedded systems. One of the biggest failings of embedded C++ was the lack of application appropriate libraries. Arduino may be an important step to moving code generation for embedded systems from abstracting the processor details with C to abstracting application details. Walter.. -- Walter Banks Byte Craft Limited http://www.bytecraft.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist