Maple Mini Arduino 32 chip board.

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RCvertt
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Maple Mini Arduino 32 chip board.

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Just found out there are Maple Mini, well clones at least, available that support the GUI and arduino libraries made for the original Maple Mini arduino board.

So is anyone using this or are there other official Arduino boards that use the Arm cortex M3 chip? I would like to stay with the arduino language as much as possible so I'm thinking of this instead of the baseflight/cleanflight route. As far as I know the baseflight/cleanflight projects don't support the arduino language or am I wrong about that?


Maple Mini info here...
https://www.hackster.io/rayburne/4-doll ... rm-arduino



Looks like there are Arduino boards that can run full linux now. I don't think I want linux but a more powerboard sounds good. We could start to remove all the bit shifting optimizations and use the friendly arduino language again. So has MultiWii moved to these more powerful boards yet without being the baseflight/cleanflight projects?

trogalko
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Re: Maple Mini Arduino 32 chip board.

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Here is DIY Naze32 by e_lm_70 :
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154329

I Have tried it with the black version :
http://id.aliexpress.com/item/5pcs-stm3 ... 90859.html

You could use baseflight or cleanflight with maple mini 32 chip, without arduino, just use STM32 and STM8 Flash loader demonstrator.

RCvertt
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Re: Maple Mini Arduino 32 chip board.

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Thanks trogalko. Looks interesting.

Will this let me use the arduino language with B or C flight? I play with the code a lot on my projects so I need the arduinos easy to use language since I'm not a programmer.

What does " STM8 Flash loader demonstrator" mean? That's the name of the board you linked to?

trogalko
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Re: Maple Mini Arduino 32 chip board.

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Well, multiwii using specific avr register name and also contain avr asm inline code.
That's a lot work to do if you insist to use maple ide to compile multiwii.
Teensy 3 has avr register emulated, leaving avr asm code to deal with.
Btw, stm32 flash loader demonstrator is just firmware/hex uploader using serial port for stm32f chip, no need for fancy jtag programmer.

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