[chbot] Free Intel Galileo boards from MS.

[Richard Jones]

Funnily enough I may just have an application for one of these. Wife and friends have suggested an internet view of the chickens. It won't be too much of a loss if it gets wet or worse. I was thinking web cam and wifi. Alternative suggestions welcome :-)


Richard



On Monday, 7 July 2014 4:07 PM, hamster <hamster at snap.net.nz> wrote:
 


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/, 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 _______________________________________________ Chchrobotics mailing list Chchrobotics at lists.linuxnut.co.nz http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics Mail Archives: http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/ Web site: http://kiwibots.org Meetings 3rd Monday each month at Tait Radio Communications, 175 Roydvale Ave, 6.30pm When replying, please edit your Subject line to reflect new content.
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