I noticed that sparkfun is selling a "Wiring Board" Wiring Board - DEV-09663 - SparkFun Electronics
This looks identical to the Arduino environment except for the background color.
The "wiring" board comes with a atmega1281 on it, a decent chip and the price is reasonable (compared to a mega). It would be simple to make it work in the Arduino environment.
My question is, which came first, the "Wiring" project or the "Arduino"
Does anyone have any experience with it?
My question is, which came first, the "Wiring" project or the "Arduino"
Wiring came first. If you look at some of the names in the Arduino 'core' library you will see the name wiring. The little research I did on the Wiring web site, it appears they offered two different boards (before this latest offering), a larger one based on the Mega128 and I forgot what the other smaller board used.
The original Arduino was a much smaller board based on the Mega8 chip. I think it was a matter of the price point that Arduino got right that made them the entry hit, much lower then the Wiring offers.
Lefty
From the paragraph on the right side of the arduino.cc homepage:
"The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing)."
Based on wiring. Wiring came first.