Maple R3 Now Shipping

Leaf Labs is now shipping the Maple R3 boards. [Phil Burgess] gave the platform a look just before launch last fall and the high-powered prototyping board is now even better. New features come in both hardware and software varieties. The bootloader can now be upgraded without additional programming hardware, there’s hardware SPI and I2C interfaces, and a newly-polished IDE for Linux and Windows. At $50 it’s a good way to get access to the power of the ARM Cortex M3 processor at the center of the board. We’ve seen several projects that use the mbed, which is in the same class as the Maple, but we’re waiting to see what you’ve accomplished with this little devil.

15 thoughts on “Maple R3 Now Shipping

  1. Hey guys….im a long long time reader(Engaget LONG), i think i’d actually buy this with the arduino even thou i wanna get my hands as dirty as possible because there both compatible? Oh and lasty its not related but i think this site would benifit from seprate microconroller brand name tags

  2. nah, I read about this on arduino’s forum, which defiantly proves that I am not a troll

    lets recap just in case there is any doubt

    I use and love arduino, and I read something

  3. I agree wit Victor. Seeed Studio’s seeeduino is the best arduino clone out there because of the extra set of headers with standard pin spacing. Seeed Studio is also the manufacturer of the famed bus pirate and a few other cool tools like the DSO nano.

    I am going to order one of these maple leafs next week and see what I can come up with.

    I also think HAD could do with a uC tag.

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