Following Maker Faire, we’ve had a few days to poke around with Digilent’s 32-bit Arduino-compatible chipKIT boards and compiler. We have some initial performance figures to report, along wit… ...

Arduino uses a 32bit counter to provide a millisecond by millisecond timing reference. It is called ‘millis ()’, and being 32bit, it overflows at about 4billion in decimal – or more precisely: ...