Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and Zigbee

Re:Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Blue... by zoobab on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:44PM (#34198729)

"Will it be supported within the arduino IDE?"

Well it's just a RISCV core which you can compile code with GCC, so I guess adding support to the Arduino IDE will be pretty easy. The wifi part is probably binary like other chips, but that did not prevent ESP8266/32 support in Arduino IDE.

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Re:Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Blue... by bri3d on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:50PM (#34198803)

Compiling code is the easy part, peripheral drivers which implement both the basic Arduino functions (digitalWrite and so on and so forth) and more advanced stuff like SPI/I2C, WiFi, etc. are necessary to make a working "Arduino ecosystem."

I think the reason that ESP was so successful is they provided both a working Arduino standard library so that sketches could just be copy-pasted from other platforms, and a reasonably decent real RTOS-backed development environment (ESP-IDF) for once users outgrew the Arduino training wheels.

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