[chbot] Free Intel Galileo boards from MS.

[Charles Manning]

The GPIOs are via USB or I2C or some such.

This is nowhere near as good as "average". Basically it sucks badly.

Even free is not a good enough price.

I'm very much anti MS playing in embedded space. They screw up the
industry badly with pretty much everything they do: Wincows CE,
Embedded .NET, MS Robotics,...

The world would be a better place if they stayed on the desktop.



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:06 PM, hamster <hamster at snap.net.nz> wrote:
> I've just signed up on https://www.windowsondevices.com/, and it looks like
> MS might be shipping me an Intel Galileo board to play with. If you are
> quick you might get one too.
>
> I hear that the boards are pretty average for GPIO - the GPIO is provided by
> a device that is on the USB bus (or something like that), so you can't flick
> pins really fast.
>
> I don't know if I will sink as low as Visual Basic, but it will be nice to
> play with it for a while.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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