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What happened to Arduino Star Otto?

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December 22, 2016
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Posted on December 22, 2016 at 21:00

http://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/ard-otto-stmhtml

http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/media-center/press-item.html/t38html

#arduino

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waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on December 23, 2016 at 01:07

http://stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?p=16027#p16027

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on December 23, 2016 at 14:56

Still seems to be unavailable, and without pricing

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Matej Zub?i?

Visitor II

Posted on January 26, 2017 at 13:44

The price tag of 70-100$ was mentioned when I was trying to find more about it last year :\

mbed framework and STM32F769I Discovery board might be a very good alternative to some people.

Laurent VERA

ST Employee

Posted on December 28, 2016 at 13:28

This board should be soon available (We hope within a couple of Months), it is under the control of

#arduino

, it will be sold by

#arduino

‌.

Stay tuned, we will get more and more involved in the

#arduino

community.

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on December 28, 2016 at 19:04

A variant built with an STM32F7 (2MB FPU-D) would also make an interesting platform.

I suspect the real volume will be sold by the clone vendors, who seem to be a lot more nimble.

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AndyJT

Associate III

Posted on January 31, 2017 at 09:54

Got mildly excited by this featuring in today's STM email newsletter, however, a quick look around and it's still not available to buy anywhere !?

By the way, will this board be supported by HAL libraries and Cube or is it purely Arduino support ?

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on January 31, 2017 at 16:41

I expect you'll just be able to nuke whatever Arduino firmware is in there and just use the hardware with HAL/Cube

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waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on February 01, 2017 at 14:11

Meantime,

http://time4ee.com/news.php?readmore=179

to enjoy... ;)

JW

waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on February 02, 2017 at 10:17

Nick Marsh wrote:

this was added today

Microcontroller news from STMicroelectronics at m.news.st.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%4045TdZ0avd3ty87cw4HM9AKHnn363b%2BUoiAk8dP3WqA4%3D

And the link in 'ARD-OTTO-STM32 - Arduino STAR OTTO board with STM32F469BIT6 mcu, supports Arduino connectivity - STMicroelectronics - ST' at www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/evaluation-tools/product-evaluation-tools/mcu-eval-tools/stm32-mcu-eval-tools/stm32-3rd-party-evaluation-tools/ard-otto-stm32.html is under 'GET SOFTWARE' heading... :)

JW

PS: hand-edited links to avoid moderation

LMI2

Senior III

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 15:16

Is there a schematic for this?

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 17:32

It is supposedly 'Open' so may be you should be asking Arduino directly?

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Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 17:38

http://www.arduino.org/forums/star/info-about-arduino-star-otto-817

http://www.arduino.org/forums/star/schematic-of-the-star-otto-773

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waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 21:44

I am quite surprised how urging the requests are, in light of abundance of various Pies and similar.

Can you or anybody else please enlighten me, what's the point I am obviously missing?

JW

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 22:55

I guess there is some frustration in that it was announced over a year ago, as part of ST's strategy to take Arduino focus away from Atmel

It would be one of the first with the Arduino Mega foot-print with more IO and USART access, and MicroSD card slot.

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Matej Zub?i?

Visitor II

Posted on February 15, 2017 at 23:42

Clive One wrote:

I guess there is some frustration in that it was announced over a year ago, as part of ST's strategy to take Arduino focus away from Atmel

+1 Arudino had also an internal power struggle... U

nfortunately,

that board/project has probably been created sometime in early 2015 and has been waiting since then.

It would be one of the first with the Arduino Mega foot-print with more IO and USART access, and MicroSD card slot.

+ on board SDRAM, Camera interface, DSI-MIPI and WiFi.

waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on March 23, 2017 at 07:48

While still waiting for it to became actually available, enjoy a

http://time4ee.com/articles.php?article_id=42

of

http://www.arduino.org/learning/getting-started/getting-started-with-arduino-star-otto

and a

https://youtu.be/68HeH4-xTMI

... :)

JW

waclawek.jan

Super User

Posted on August 28, 2017 at 16:20

,

The

http://www.arduino.org/products/boards/arduino-star-otto

from the bottom of ,

http://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/ard-otto-stm32.html

now leads to a 404, and there's no mention of OTTO at

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products ♯ retired

, .

JW

AvaTar

Senior III

Posted on August 28, 2017 at 16:40

One may now put two and two together. Not that I disliked the OTTO project ...

KevinA

Senior

Posted on September 07, 2017 at 18:35

If ST replaced a few software managers they might have a chance. Currently to get a6 to work with their products is a nightmare, every development board could be programmed with the Arduino IDE if they would hire someone that knew what they were doing. We can program ESP WiFi and BLE parts as well as obscure Leon3 based GPS products! A perfect example is the Due, works great with the gcc compiler.

But they won't, it appears to be a 'not invented here' issue.

I do enjoy playing with their 'DISCO ' products, too bad they can't figure out that Protel version 5 binary files are useless to anyone but 'Protel' users..

UPDATE:

They (someone/stm32duino) has ported some development boards to Arduino:

https://github.com/stm32duino/BoardManagerFiles/raw/master/STM32/package_stm_index.json

stick that into Preferences and you're halfway there.

Tesla DeLoreanAuthor

Guru

Posted on September 07, 2017 at 19:47

When the STM32 first came out the staffing understood about IC design and the libraries were super solid, in recent years with money and hires it seems to be a bit of a train-wreck, with recurrent issues, lack of any regression testing, and no real-world use, or dog-fooding of what's being delivered.

A great deal of this stuff could be miles better with the use of GitHub, and some people who understand threaded/concurrent execution, and how this code is likely to be used outside noddy examples.

When I was the engineering back-stop to a technical support team, my goal was to keep their phones quiet from the 'noise' of repetitive and recurrent issues we could fix before product left the factory dock, so we could focus on identifying real, evolving and new issues caused by the OS and computer vendors our products plugged into.

Nemerix used to have a GPS based on the Leon 3 SPARQ implementation.

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KevinA

Senior

Posted on September 07, 2017 at 22:32

'

Nemerix used to have a GPS based on the Leon 3 SPARQ implementation.'

Navspark now has one, you can purchase a dual GNSS stamp for $6.

Richard Lowe

Senior II

Posted on May 28, 2018 at 22:14

With the millions Intel threw at Arduino, I doubt highly that they will let ST products see the light of day. Also, since Intel is throwing money at

https://www.espressif.com/

and their ESP32 makes it even less likely you'll see ST products featured on the Arduino products. Sorry Charlie.

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