Now that the first batch of boards has been shipped off and are starting to make their way out to customers, I thought I'd post a bit of a roadmap on things that I plan to work on around Kakapo.

First up is to resolve some of the outstanding major tickets on libkakapo. The main one to sort out is the various problems with clock.c, namely that is takes control of hardware when it shouldn't (breaking the philosophy that you should determine how it's used, not the framework taking it away from you) and that RTC support needs to be broken out into it's own code.

Less urgent is to expand the number of supported modules. I'd like to get watchdog, type 2, 4, and 5 timers, and a few other things with better support. Modules present on the XMEGA D4 will be highest priority, but given I use libkakapo myself on other projects, support for some of their modules is useful to me at least.

Anyway, if you'd like some idea what I think is on my to-do list for libkakapo, have a look over the issue tracking.

I also need to write up more tutorials which build on the examples provided in the libkakapo source. Those examples actually serve as test suites as well, since they provide a quick way to check the libkakapo driver works as I expect. But they should really have documentation associated with them here about what they're doing and why they work.

On the hardware front, the next major addition to the family will be a W5500-based Ethernet+microSD shield. This is the latest revision of the Ethernet/IP chip commonly used on Arduino Ethernet shields. The first prototypes of the PCB go off to be made this weekend. You'll see more updates on that soon, I hope!

Lastly, thanks to everyone who has expressed interest, committed code, and generally supported getting Kakapo out and about. I really appreciate the effort people have put in.