Urg, no description. Atheros running Linux with a 32U4, built-in WiFi
http://giftguide.makezine.com/detail/tools/detail-Lininoone.html
$60 for an ATMega32u4 board? Sounds a bit rich.
It’s not a 32U4 board. it’s an Atheros board running Linux based on OpenWRT, offering wifi. It just happens to also have a 32U4 on board.
And … I’m not promoting it either. Just sharing a find.
It’s made by the same people who designed the Yun for Arduino.
Have you seen the price of an Arduino Wifi shield? Makes the One seem a bargain.
Exactly. I don’t think @Daniel_Tullemans really read what this is.
I’m just comparing its capabilities to what’s already on the market. The Pi is cheaper and has all that built-in. The BeagleBone Black is also $60 and gives you loads more grunt.
The Pi has Wifi?
Oh, /facepalm. How did I miss that?
FastLED doesn’t work on BB nor the Pi … yet. The 32u4 on this one comes in handy. Like the Due that’s on the UDOO.
Raspberry Pi A+ with a wifi dongle is under $30. It’s a tough price point to beat. One could easily add a $2.50 Arduino Pro Mini and the cost would still be under $30.
And still be under the price of a spark or electric imp. Except… I’m assuming you mean the smaller Pi? You certainly would be paying the thicker end of US$50 if you had to use a B+ around these parts.
The only place you could get close to your price is if you can walk in and pick one up and that’s pretty much limited to the US, UK and a very limited number of specialist stores in the rest of the world.
Arduino Yun, and presumably this Linino product, come with some very nice software integration. Code running on the microcontroller can use the Linux system, and you can reprogram the microcontroller over the network.
Some people think of value only in terms of hardware cost, completely ignoring software, and the value of their own time to get something working! Sure, you can buy a Raspberry Pi and Asian clone of Arduino very cheaply. But then what? There are numerous forum threads where people have wanted to port the code to these alternate (cheaper and/or faster) hardware combinations, but so far, nobody seems to have done so.
I recently took some initial steps to try this, but it’s a pretty big project with a lot of pieces.
I agree @PaulStoffregen I bitch and moan about the price of the Electric Imp, but when it comes to doing end-user-saleable pieces that are IoT, the alternative would be to spend hundreds of hours building my own infrastructure and a frankenboard that, should anyone ever actually open the electronics box, would embarrass the heck out of me.