The board you link to appears to be designed as a debug interface board rather than a dev board, so I am not sure how far you will get with that. I would look at something like [www.nxp.com]
I bought a board off ebay which was cheaper and has more pins available, [www.ebay.co.uk], but the pins have 2mm pitch.
As for Smoothieware, porting to other processors than LPC1769 could be problematic, AFAIK no one has successfully ported it yet. The Smoothie core needs some tidying up to make it portable, then you also need an mbed library or write equivalent routines for your target CPU. Portability doesn't seem to be a high priority for Smoothie, but there was talk of porting to LPC43xx so maybe that will change.
I think the best bet for running Smoothie is to stick with LPC1769 for now, unless you want to do a lot of firmware work. I am hoping to get an LPCXpresso hooked up to RAMPS-FD running Smoothieware.
I bought a board off ebay which was cheaper and has more pins available, [www.ebay.co.uk], but the pins have 2mm pitch.
As for Smoothieware, porting to other processors than LPC1769 could be problematic, AFAIK no one has successfully ported it yet. The Smoothie core needs some tidying up to make it portable, then you also need an mbed library or write equivalent routines for your target CPU. Portability doesn't seem to be a high priority for Smoothie, but there was talk of porting to LPC43xx so maybe that will change.
I think the best bet for running Smoothie is to stick with LPC1769 for now, unless you want to do a lot of firmware work. I am hoping to get an LPCXpresso hooked up to RAMPS-FD running Smoothieware.
