[chbot] Free Intel Galileo boards from MS.

[hamster]

I guess I just want to say "Tried it, laughted, put it one Trademe
for a dollar. Nobody bidded. Market has valued it at < $1." 

Sure, I
might waste an evening but it has to be better than a night in front of
the TV. 

Maybe it is just a way for MS + Intel to be claim "Over X
boards in the hands of developers", or maybe they are dumping
stock.

And from a more pragmatic perspective, if you are trying to use
a full OS to waggle GPIO pins really fast then you are doing something
wrong! 

Mike 

On 07.07.2014 15:29, Charles Manning wrote: 

> 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/ [1], 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
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