Announced Arduino 1.0 IDE

Created Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:35:01 +0000 by avenue33

avenue33

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:35:01 +0000

Hi!

The Arduino Blog announced

Arduino 1.0, we finally froze the Arduino API, the IDE and the layout of the boards. We’ve made some minor additions to the Arduino connectors to make them more flexible. Tomorrow you will be able to download the release candidate and in 1 month of frantic testing with the community, the platform will be ready and stable.

How and when does mpide —currently based on 0022— plan to integrate this new 1.0 release?

Thank you and best regards,

ricklon

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:56:46 +0000

It's exciting the Arduino 1.0 is almost ready to go. For the next month it is in release candidate mode. There is always a chance something can change even during this period. The idea is to let the new changes stabilize, and base the timeline on how difficult, and the amount of time it's expected to take to update the core libraries to 1.0. In the mean time we'll continue to make sure that mpide supports 0022 as best as possible.

artbecker

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:51:04 +0000

Don't get too excited about 1.0, since you are liable to discover that much of your old code no longer works under it.

I just bought Massimo Banzi's latest book, the new 2nd edition of "Getting Started With Arduino," and the very first example in the book fails, using rc1. Some other examples also fail, using rc1, yet they all work fine using 0022.

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,72766.0.html

Massimo uses 1.0-beta1 throughout the book, so I assume he tested all the code under it. But, between beta1 and rc1, things changed.

I tried to contact Massimo a number of different ways, but have had no response. I can work around most of the problems, but I suspect that a lot of people who buy the new book, will be thoroughly disappointed, if not angry.

My suggestion is to forget all about 1.0, in the near future, and just stick with, and keep improving, 0022, which works fine.

avenue33

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:54:12 +0000

My suggestion is to forget all about 1.0, in the near future, and just stick with, and keep improving, 0022, which works fine.

I fully agree with you. That's a sensible piece of advice.

My current main concern is about finding a software serial library that runs on chipKIT. The Arduino NewSoftSerial library relies heavily on AVR interrupts: will it be ported to the Arduino Due Cortex-M3 platform?

The thread about software serial library on chipKIT is :arrow: here.