mbed is a tool for Rapid Prototyping with Microcontrollers

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Hardware

The mbed Microcontrollers are a series of ARM-based microcontroller development boards designed for fast, flexible and low-risk professional rapid prototyping.

» Full hardware specification

Standard library

The mbed SDK provides a solid C/C++ startup environment and peripheral abstraction libraries to enable clean API-driven coding for microcontrollers.

» The mbed SDK

Getting started

How to set up your mbed microcontroller, create your mbed.org account, and write your first program!

» Get started

Online IDE

The mbed Compiler provides a lightweight online C/C++ IDE that is pre-configured to let you quickly write programs and compile and download them to run on your mbed Microcontroller.

» The mbed Compiler

Community

The mbed.org developer website is home to a friendly and active community. As well as the Forum and the Community wiki, there are thousands of user contributed Programs and libraries.

» Explore mbed.org

Where to buy mbed

The mbed microcontroller range is available from over 30 different distributors all over the world.

» Find a distributor

Beta Testers Wanted - 3G Mobile Internet

Posted 23 hours, 57 minutes ago, by Amit Naran

3g, beta, mobile | 0 replies

We're looking for a group of keen mbed users to help us test and improve libraries that will enable prototype 3G Mobile Network connected applications, before official public release.

Beta Library

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Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle

Posted 1 week, 2 days ago, by Amit Naran

ROV, underwater | 0 replies

Scott O'Brien has blogged about an underwater robot he has built for his final year individual project at the University of Westminster using a couple mbed microcontrollers.