Past, present, and future - the various homes of the library.

Past, present, and future - the various homes of the library.

Not seeing a UDOO on that table. Nor an MSP430.

I only just heard of it now :slight_smile: Is it similar to the Yún? There is a beagle bone black on there - I really can’t wait to get into running on that one.

http://www.udoo.org/features/ - everything you ever wanted to know about it.

The one I got (from their Kickstarter campaign) also came with Bluetooth on it. $59 for a full computer …

Looks interesting - like a mashup between the Yún and the beagle. The thing I dislike about the Yún and similar variants like this is there’s shitty communication options between the linux side and the arduino side. It’s basically just serial/usb communication between the two. The thing i’m excited about with the beagle is the dedicated i/o coprocessors appear to have full access to the linux system’s memory. This opens up some great options for pushed data out without having to first copy between your linux app and the arduino side of things (which basically adds a doubling overhead of pushing data around).

Curious what you think of it so far, if you’ve played with it at all. The arduino side of it is just a Due, which there’s preliminary support for in the 2.1 branch (I’ve been messing with a due lately). It is cheaper than a Yún, so for setting up the library and linux side code to play with things this might be a better route to go with.

Still - I’m on a “new hardware buying freeze” until I’ve finished support for everything i’ve brought (LEDs and MCUs) over the past few months. Now, if someone else were to send me things…

Oh, the thing is still in its box. I got it last month in the middle of our competition season so I haven’t done a darned thing with it yet. And I’ve spent the last month attempting to catch up with work … The old ‘one step forward, umpteen steps back’ syndrome …

What’s the tiny tiny one?

No, haven’t gotten my RFDuinos yet, that’s a Digispark.

Er, digistump, maybe? @Mark_Kriegsman , help? You gave me that one :slight_smile:

Soooo excited for RFDuino!

Ahem… And Fastspi!

Yep the little one with the USB traces on the PCB is Digispark from Digistump.
http://digistump.com/products/1
It’s an ATtiny85.

Digistump’s newer creation, the DigiX, is something I’m currently pretty happy about. It’s basically a Due (ARM) with onboard WiFi and NRF24L01+. At around $60 it’s the cheapest/easiest/best(?) way I’ve found to put an Arduino on WiFi. Plus, being ARM, it has more RAM and CPU power to play with too.

The RFduino seems promising, too. I like the Bluetooth shield for it. The MCU is an ARM Cortex M0+, if I recall, which means it’s very low power. I have one but haven’t done much more than play with the included “Bluetooth remote control of one RGB led via an iPhone app” but as I said it seems promising!

Mark, Daniel, Greg,
Very excited to read the RFduino is already on the radar.
I’m still waiting for my RFDuino goodies but hope to do a lot of fastled projects with them.