[chbot] Free Intel Galileo boards from MS.

[Cass Jones]

Google seems to think this is a waste of time, so much so that gmail filed
this message away under spam.

I have however put in my order for a free one to have a play with.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Richard Jones <richard_alan_jones at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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
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