As the mbed project is all about "Rapid Prototyping", we tend to give ourselves crazy deadlines for any demos we do. This is just to make sure we practice what we preach! I posted about our experiments with an mbed, RN42 Bluetooth module and Pololu 3pi robot, so with that working it was all about turning it in to an event for ARM Tech Con; "mbed Robot Racing!" Here is what we did next to have it ready for the show....

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We're doing some experiments to add an mbed brain and bluetooth to the already awesome 3pi robot base from Pololu. The plan is that it can be remotely controlled from a PC or phone application over bluetooth, scripted, or made fully autonomous robot such as a line follower.

The big plan is to run a "Robot Racing" event at the upcoming ARM Techcon with it, all controlled via android devices. We'll also publish all the design files so anyone can build one! Here is where we've gotten so far...

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mbed.org will be unavailable for some time during the daytime (GMT) of Saturday 23rd October (this weekend) for essential maintenance.

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Over the past month, I've been pretty busy doing all sorts of stuff. Some of the stand out things have been setting up Circuit Cellar Design Challenge with Circuit Cellar/Elektor and NXP (the response here has blown us away! I'll write more soon :) and going to shows like ESC and Maker Faire and talking to *lots* of people about amazing things (and getting to meet so many of you already using mbed! Awesome!), plus all the usual stuff of development, presenting at events/customers, dealing with all the important but unexciting things like distribution etc.

But I haven't really been keeping an eye on what *you* had been up to. So for the first time in a while i've just had a browse around the site to see what was up. Turns out you have been busy! So I decided to note down some of the things I found...

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Yesterday, the beta version of the site went live, which adds integrated user created library support, as well as an upgrade to the mbed Compiler.

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We're on a mission to bring rapid prototyping to microcontrollers, and we want you to join us! Introducing the mbed challenge...

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Hack-a-day described mbed as "Arduino. On steroids. With claws and fangs.". The Arduino is a great platform and has rightly built up a strong following of tinkerers. What it has also done is stimulated a lot of bolt-on technologies to become accessible in the form of "shields". Well, it seems someone has been busy making a breakout to let the power of mbed loose on any of these great shields too...

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The mbed platform hasn't been around long and it is still early days, but it is already proving a great success. We are therefore looking for some really talented engineers, who share our vision, to join the mbed team and make it even better...

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We've now made a major compiler and website update available for beta trials. The highlight of this update is support for developing and publishing your own libraries. Here are the details, along with the other features and updates we've added...

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I was adding some mbed events to our calander and realised we've actually got quite a lot coming up this next month or so. I thought it'd be worth capturing where we'll be incase any of you mbed early-adopters can come and say hi, or any newbies want to find out what mbed is all about! Here is what is coming up...

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