Olimex, maker of development boards and tools, does not like the new LPC800-MAX board it seems. The article is factually incorrect in claiming that the mbed compiler is closed source. Otherwise, I think the criticism is a bit harsh and seeks to promote their own agenda. What do others think? http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/what-happens-when-the-engineers-listen-to-the-marketing-managers-or-why-arduino-cant-be-killed-by-all-these-new-arduino-killer-boards/

Well the compiler itself is closed source, although the libraries behind it are of course opensource. Personally I wouldn't know why you would care the compiler is closed source: plenty of options to go to alternative compilers with your mbed code if you want to do that for whatever reason, and it is something that should just work. The mbed libraries being open source are nice, so you can see what they do.

You see such things more often, it is nice of course when people are passionate about something, but people like him are pretty much obsessed by it and attack everything else, thats the internet ;).

Selling at 1 Euro and giveaways are promotions we must applaud.

Too bad he can't see the real benefit of different open source communities.
We learn from each other and port existing code between communities.

A while ago, I thought we could even benefit from an inter-community setup (how it should be set up needs to be defined). It would make it easier to find out what libraries are available/being developed on other communities and, most important, prevent that 2 or more people are working on the same code at the same time - they could join forces and obtain better results in a shorter timeframe.
Even though the development happens on different platforms, there always will be a common part.
If more people tend to think like him, I can expect a massive opposition to this idea.

I also don't know if manufacturers would oppose to this idea as each website needs to be modified to easily browse through the 'competitor's' open source libraries.

As Erik mentioned, don't be obsessed by just one solution, also look at others. That's the real power of ALL open source communities.
Perhaps that guy already 'borrowed' code from other communities to use it in the Arduino community?.......

Hi,

Thought you might be interested in this slide from my first ever mbed presentation (before it was a real project!):

It was about 5 or 6 years ago, so I really like some of the Olimex comments in there (e.g. experts say in 5 years ARM will replace 8051 in many applications); i think he gets a lot right! It is great that Olimex helps make this technology accesible to more people.

You never know; Olimex could start using the mbed HDK/mbed CMSIS-DAP interface to allow their ARM development boards to work with all ARM toolchains without any extra hardware, and allow everyone choose what ARM toolchain they want to use and take advantage of the SDK and Component libraries for their boards!

Simon

Just ordered one for 1 Euro. Really great price. I've used the LPC800 minikit before, I wonder how the multiplexing works from the mbed IDE.

@First Last

Hello, I tried out the free PLC800 mini kit and I'am interested in the lpc-800 Max due the better debugging options.

However I can't find a site where I can order such board. Can you please tell me how you have ordered the board ?

TIA

HI All,

NXP have informed me that due to overwhelming response, all the vouchers have now been redeemed.

The board is now available for purchase directly from Embedded Artists or from your local NXP authorized distributor. If you did receive a voucher but have not used it yet, note that it is only valid until 30th of October 2013!

Cheers, Chris

I like we can use IDE online For the first time I have used ARM based NXP LPC-800 in 1 Euro.