It is now possible to easily program powerful micro controller. All you need is just some basic knowledge of programming, if you don't have this knowledge then example projects are also available, you can take a look at them. All this has been possible with XDUINO project. 

 

 

What you need now comes down only 2 things:

-XDUINO board from XDUINO hardware

-XDUINO IDE software from XDUINO download

that's all :-)

 

 

 

 

I have been playing with Arduino for few months and really liked it. However, after sometime I did run into several limitations with the current hardware platform it currently supports so I started looking at other solutions and the first hit as an ARM Cortex-M3 board with STM32F10x (ret6) mcu. This little thing is extremely powerful compared to that of what Arduino supports. This ARM Cortex-M3 runs at 72MHz having 512kb of flash memory and 64kb of RAM, wow! really plenty..

 

However, I did run into difficulties in programming its firmware as it's very difficult compared to Arduino platform. So after a while of learning and testing the codes, I did finally manage to work with it and found out that it's much more powerful than what I found out initially. From programming side, it's generally more difficult than Arduino. So what I did decide to start X duino project to create Arduino-like library for running on different hardware platforms. Currently this Arduin-like library works on ARM Cortex-M3 and is available. So if you feel like you can check out X duino ARM Cortex-M3 page