With the Beagle Bone Black costing a mere $45 for a Cortex A8 1Ghz, 512MB RAM, etc does it even make sense to try to make something to compete with that? The BBB is actually cheaper than an official Arduino Due, although there are Due clones in the $30 region.
I don't know if Replicape is shipping yet, but it seems to have been a long time in development. In theory it should be relatively easy to adapt RAMPS-FD for the Beagle Bone. The official guidance for cape developers is a bit more complicated, I haven't digested all of it, but there are probably some things that are not strictly necessary.
However, with a ATmega2560 costing around $10, there are more cost effective chips. If Chinese shops can sell an Arduino Mega2560 clone for little more than $15, then in theory they could sell a board with an LPC4333 for a similar price. This would still be a better low cost alternative.
I'm still liking the LPC4333. Even if we just used the M4 part, it would be pretty good.
I don't know if Replicape is shipping yet, but it seems to have been a long time in development. In theory it should be relatively easy to adapt RAMPS-FD for the Beagle Bone. The official guidance for cape developers is a bit more complicated, I haven't digested all of it, but there are probably some things that are not strictly necessary.
However, with a ATmega2560 costing around $10, there are more cost effective chips. If Chinese shops can sell an Arduino Mega2560 clone for little more than $15, then in theory they could sell a board with an LPC4333 for a similar price. This would still be a better low cost alternative.
I'm still liking the LPC4333. Even if we just used the M4 part, it would be pretty good.