How do I decide which ARM board to go for if I am aiming to use it as a micro-controller to run sensors, actuators, motors, and solar panels? And I wish to power up the board via Li-ion battery pack.
Thanks jensbauer @Jérôme Décamps and raffaeu for your replies. It really helps. The thing is, I can tell you that from my experience and what I planned to do, I wish my micro-controller board is somewhat like Arduino type cus of the friendly interface and coding that they provide. But I wish to change because I thk there are many boards out there that can do much more than Arduino MEGA. (Although MEGA is really good I think.) So I actly wanted to try out some other board to work on the same processing environment. Such as using my Sun Sensor, Star Tracker, GPS, Memory Card probably and wireless communication from my controller to the computer. For movement wise, my group is still discussing on whether to use cold gas or just normal motor for simulation. FYI, I am working on simulation on ground testing for CubeSat. Basically, what we are doing now is to test out the sensors so that we can achieve something like determining our CubeSat position based on the Sun, Moon, Star and Earth position.
If you have experience with Arduino in the past, you could always consider using an Arduino Due, which has a Cortex-M3 based processor and can be programmed from the Arduino IDE. It supports 3.3 V shields so if you have any from other projects, you could reuse them. Just an idea!
That is a good point. I forgot to mention that the LPC1549 boards from Embedded Artists also have arduino compatible pin headers.
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