The postman just arrived with Leaflab's ARM Maple.

Inside the box the contents were:
1. 1 Bigelow Green Tea bag?
2. 1 Candy - Smarties ?
3. The Maple in an anti-static ziploc bag.
I searched around for a mini USB cable and used one of the many I had from my digital
camera.
On the ziploc label, it instructed me to go to their website to obtain their doc's and software.
I followed the instructions to the "T" and I was able to flash the on board blue LED on pin 13.
Two window's XP drivers have to be installed carefully for the Maple to work with windows.
Note: Also, before any software setup, cycle the reset/BUT miniature pushbutton tac switches several
times to work the switch contacts in due to the flux residue from the wave soldering -
this will help.
I got out my Smarties and made some green tea - life is good. Then I decided to upload the
simplest program in the world "Hello World" from the example sketches. 8-) 8-) 8-)
Then disaster struck - no output "Hello World!" on the serial monitor? <---- This problem occurs only with Windows XP 32

??On the Arduino, by clicking on the serial monitor, the Arduino is reset. The Maple, due to its dual drivers cannot do this. I got another third party terminal program from the web (Tera Term) and was abe to see "Hello World" By consuming the included smarties must of helped me out???
The Maple A team is working on this problem... to be continued.

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MIT - Joke of the day
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Mit engineer dream...
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked a young engineer
who was fresh out of MIT, "What starting salary were you thinking about?"
The Engineer said, "In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."
The interviewer said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks vacation,
14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary,
and a company car leased every 2 years - say, a red Corvette?"
The Engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you kidding?" The interviewer replied,
"Yeah, but you started it."
