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:
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.no communication whatsoever from Arduino, a company known for being open on “everything” - except communication apparently.
That’s OK. Being “open source” doesn’t mean you have to tell everyone everything about future plans…
This is David’s actual post about the ARM-based Due: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic … #msg684194
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…
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:
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.
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?
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”.