Support for more that the Arduino AVR (UNO) platform

[ogiewon]

Sphero,

It appears that only a binary library has been included thus far, and it is specifically compiled for the Atmel AVR processor. Is this correct?

Hopefully, this is just the beginning of support for a full-fledged, Open Source Arduino library for the Sphero RVR. The old AVR boards are very limiting, especially the UNO with only 2KB of RAM. Most users these days are using either the newer Arduino.cc offerings like the MKR1010 and NANO33IOT, or are using the Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32 processors. All of these have built-in WiFi and offer a significant performance and memory boost.

Please provide a full Open Source Arduino Library for the Sphero RVR. The user community will quickly add support for all of the mainstream micrcontrollers and could then issue pull requests to have those changes reviewed and merged by Sphero.

Thank you for your consideration.

Dan

[janroudaut]

+1.

As an Arduino Mega 2560 owner, I'd also like to be able to use it with my RVR...

Thanks in advance for your support,

--jan

[meganrobinson22]

@ogiewon @janroudaut Thank you guys for making us aware of the demand for broader Arduino support! The library in its current state is not suitable to be released open source, but there are ongoing discussions about how we can get to that point in the future. I'll post updates here as more progress is made! For now, take a look at this post in the community forum (if you haven't already).