Did you ever wish you could program your chipKIT board in Arduino IDE? Well, your prayers have been answered! The chipKIT development team is very excited to announce the release of v1.1.0 of the chipKIT-core software! This is the latest version of the chipKIT software, and it has support for all existing chipKIT boards. It is installed into the Arduino 1.6.7+ IDE, just like any of the other available cores.
Extra extra! Read all about it! The EDN online community has named chipKIT Wi-FIRE one of their Hot 100 Products of 2015 in their Wireless and Networking category! Although they had posted a glowing review of the chipKIT Wi-FIRE back in February, we were pleasantly surprised to have stayed in their
Read more -->Jay Weeks of Digilent is back with another very useful "Instructable" about external interrupts. Armed with a chipKIT board, a USB cable, and a piece of wire, he guides you through some example code, so that you can see for yourself how interrupts really work! Using very simple explanations, he discusses polling vs. interrupts, and then he delves deeper into the topic to discuss debouncing, interrupt service routines, volatile variables, and more. Check it all out at Instructables.
Read more -->Connect your LabVIEW™ projects to the real world! LINX from LabVIEW MakerHub is a free, open-source add-on for LabVIEW software. In this series of video tutorials, learn how to use LINX with the Digilent LabVIEW Physical Computing Kit in projects based on the chipKIT WF32™ board.
Read more -->chipKIT core is ready for beta testers!
The chipKIT platform development team is very excited to announce general availability of a chipKIT-core download that can be used within the latest Arduino™ IDE. You can now program all of the chipKIT boards directly from within the Arduino IDE. The new chipKIT-core is currently available for broad testing, and is actively being updated as issues are identified. The chipKIT platform development team sincerely appreciates all feedback from users who try out this new form of chipKIT development
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