Looking for some direction

[Patrick Mahan]

On 12/5/16 7:51 AM, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Mahan <mahan at mahan.org> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am buying an arduino board to do some hobbyist stuff in robotics and other
>> real-time control (sound, audio, etc).  I see that there are multiple arduino
>> ports in the ports tree, but I don't see a mailing list for arduino directly and
>> what I have seen via google-fu seems to be a few years out of date.
>>
>> Is there a group of tinkers inside the FreeBSD community who are currently
>> playing with the latest arduino platforms?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Patrick
> 
> I'll take a look at adding support to devel/arduino16 for some of the
> Intel boards sometime this week and get back to you. It looks like
> they use arc-elf32-gcc which we definitely don't have yet, so we'll
> see how rough porting this and other stuff (arduino101load?) goes.
> 

That would be great.  That's part of what I was trying to determine was if I
needed to do my own porting or if it was already done.

Let me know if I can do anything, I ordered the arduino this morning since I do
have a Macbook I can use initially, but would rather be using my FBSD development
box (Multiple displays, much larger than my 15" on the Mac).

Thanks,

Patrick