News & Press Releases - MCU Open-Source Platforms - 8

Open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software, mini & microcomputers.

71. Microchip Announces Arduino Compatible chipKIT Boards With Prototyping-Friendly 32-bit MCU Packages
    Microcontrollers MCU Open-Source Platforms Arduino Microchip Digilent chipKIT DP32 chipKIT Fubarino Mini
    chipKIT Platform Expands With Prototyping-Friendly PIC32-based Boards From Digilent, FUBAR Labs and Schmalz Haus; PIC32 MCUs With chipKIT USB Bootloader Also Available Microchip Technology Inc. announced from the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, ...
    May 17, 2013
72. Embedded Pi board connects Raspberry Pi, Arduino and 32bit ARM mcu
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Arduino element14 Embedded Pi
    The device, which has been designed around STMicroelectronics' STM32F103 mcu, can operate as a bridge between Raspberry Pi and Arduino shields and as a Cortex-M3 evaluation board. element 14 has launched Embedded Pi , which it says is a low cost ...
    May 13, 2013

73. Cypress's New $25 PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit Available For Pre-Order from Premier Farnell
    Programmable Logic (PLD, FPGA) MCU Open-Source Platforms Arduino Cypress element14 PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit
    The Infinitely Expandable ARM Cortex-M0 Based PSoC 4 Development Kit Provides Compatibility with Arduino Shields and Digilent Pmod Form Factors Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Premier Farnell, the global leader in high service distribution and ...
    Apr 15, 2013
74. $99 MarS Board dev board features Freescale i.MX6 Dual processor
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Embest MarS Board
    Embest Technologies plans to offer a new dev board/mini-computer with a low power processor. It’s called the M arS Board and it’s sort of like a Raspberry Pi, but it costs more than twice as much as delivers far more power. The $99 MarS ...
    Apr 15, 2013
75. Platform for Kinetis KL05Z MCUs delivers desirable energy efficiency and performance
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Arduino Freescale FRDM-KL05Z
    element14 has announced the availability of a new board for evaluating Kinetis KL05Z MCUs ( FRDM-KL05Z , the Freescale Freedom KL05Z hardware). Based on a microcontroller built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, the new platform gives design ...
    Mar 12, 2013
76. Microchip and Digilent Add Arduino Compatible chipKIT uC32 Development Platform and Wi-Fi Shield for 32-bit PIC Microcontrollers
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Arduino Microchip Digilent chipKIT uC32
    New Tools Available From Newark at Special Engineering-Week Discount; Enable chipKIT and Arduino User Communities to Easily Develop Wireless Applications Microchip Technology Inc. and Digilent, Inc. announced the jointly developed chipKIT uC32 ...
    Feb 21, 2013
77. Sitara ARM processors launch support for Android 4.1.2 "Jelly Bean" allowing up to 2X faster and easier navigation for an enhanced user experience
    Microcontrollers MCU Open-Source Platforms CAD & Software Texas Instruments Android 4.1.2 Development Kit
    Android 4.1.2 capabilities available for Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex™-A8 processors improve performance and user interface response time Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced the availability of a new development kit that brings Android ...
    Jan 12, 2013
78. Meet MariaMole, an Arduino IDE for advanced developers (And beginners too)
    MCU Open-Source Platforms CAD & Software Arduino MariaMole
    Alex likes programming Arduino but finds that original Arduino IDE is inconvenient in some ways. And instead of looking for other open source IDE he started to build his own. He called it “MariaMole” (means “Soft Mary” in ...
    Jan 11, 2013
79. Meet Arndale the new Exynos 5-based community board from Samsung
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Samsung Samsung Arndale
    There are two types of ARM based development boards in the world today, the cheap ones like the Raspberry Pi and the expensive ones like the new Arndale board which has just been announced by Samsung . The Raspberry Pi starts at $35 for the basic ...
    Nov 3, 2012
80. Raspberry Pi Can Control Real-World Devices Using New Gertboard Add-On
    MCU Open-Source Platforms Raspberry Pi Getboard
    The Raspberry Pi project continues to develop at a rapid pace. You can now pre-order the Gertboard kit, which is an add-on that extends the use of the tiny computer by enabling it to interact with a variety of real world devices. Like the Raspberry ...
    Aug 22, 2012