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On 03/31/2013 02:59 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
>> It is Arduino code compatible but uses a faster ARM chip
> 
> Why not use an original Arduino, then, which is also ARM based these days?
> 
> 
> This Kickstarter stuff makes me cringe. One couldn't try harder to get
> engineers into producing well marketed, but hastily engineered stuff than by
> bidding on products which don't even exist, yet. And showing how many
> hundreds of thousands of bucks one can make that way. Makes everybody doing
> carefully designed, sustainable and well supported engineering masterpieces
> feel like an idiot.

  It certainly makes ME feel like an idiot...for not having thought of it
first!  A board like that can be designed in an afternoon if you're familiar
with the parts and already have symbols and footprints.

                -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA