On Thu, September 15, 2011 6:07 pm, peter green wrote:
> Alex Harford wrote:
>> http://www.microchip.com/stacks/
>>
>> $1000 in your pocket, ie they'll pay enough to cover your income tax. :)
>>
> I notice a lot of repliers to this don't seem to have actually read the
> offer. It is NOT for providing new stacks from scratch it is for porting
> existing opensource stacks to the PIC32.

Absolutely! Another part of this is that the resulting code must be
released under a full open source license. If you trace this contest
backward, it the reasoning was discussed at hackaday.com - trying to get
some open source momentum behind the digilent port of the arduino
ecosystem.

The arduino has some good points - at the very least it gets people
started without a lot of initial pain (to flash your first LED :). With
time and experience, those that want to accomplish more will find their
way to devices with debuggers, and maybe even to assembly code!



Matt Bennett
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