Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered

Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#139584

By randomvibe - Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:45 pm

- Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:45 pm #139584

The Arduino 32-bit Due (Italian for "two") was due last December as announced in the last Maker Faire (September, 2011). To the user community's surprise, no news, no updates, no communication whatsoever from Arduino, a company known for being open on "everything" - except communication apparently. That changed to day when David Cuartielles from Arduino responded. See Reply #28 in link below:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=88029.0

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#139674

By westfw - Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:37 am

- Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:37 am #139674

no communication whatsoever from Arduino, a company known for being open on "everything" - except communication apparently.

The Arduino "Company" has NEVER been very free with information about future products, and is usually quite uncommunicative on the subject when discussions appear on their forums.
That's OK. Being "open source" doesn't mean you have to tell everyone everything about future plans...

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#139676

By leon_heller - Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:01 am

- Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:01 am #139676

This is David's actual post about the ARM-based Due: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic ... #msg684194

Leon Heller
G1HSM

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#139763

By westfw - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:37 pm

- Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:37 pm #139763

Heh. The situation with "Leonardo" is somewhat interesting. "Leonardo" is a reduced-cost Arduino that uses a 32u4 chip (direct USB support, so no added cost for the USB converter. It has not been officially released, as far as I know, but there is "prior art" in "teensy" and a couple of other 32u4 "breakout boards" for which support was added to the IDE. AND they have the teensy code/definitions/bootloader included in the 1.0 IDE code.

The result is that there are several Leonardo "clones" already designed and discussed...

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#150947

By randomvibe - Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:40 am

- Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:40 am #150947

October 22nd is the last release date announced at the World Maker Faire in New York (9/29-9/30). Price: $49. Just when I thought Arduino would miss another commitment, I read it's been released according to "wired.com". Can this be true? "Wired.com" is a respectable site. It doesn't make sense to hear it there rather than arduino's site. More here:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic ... #msg965991

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#150950

By leon_heller - Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:25 am

- Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:25 am #150950

It is actually available from the Arduino Store. I went through the ordering process until the final stage when I saw that the total cost would be £94! I then cancelled the order.

Leon Heller
G1HSM

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#150954

By ransomhall - Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:00 am

- Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:00 am #150954

They're starting to show up as products in a few places... so far Mouser and Adafruit. Both backordered, though. Any comment from SF when they might show up here?

Re: Interview with God - Arduino 32-bit "Due" Delay Answered#150956

By randomvibe - Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:54 am

- Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:54 am #150956

The Arduino Due is retailing for $49 USD. Massimo Banzi himself addressed the price issue in the thread below: (high traffic!)

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic ... #msg966219

Adafruit beat out Sparkfun with the announcement, and she's even listing it on the "New Product" page and taking "notifications".

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