[chbot] Free Intel Galileo boards from MS.

[Kerry Harpur]

I ordered one because I project that I might be able to use one for,
although my RPi is probably a better fit but the price seems about right.
Plus the is also the is the eternal question to answer, "Does it run Linux"
to answer.

Kerry


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Cass Jones <cass at cassjones.net> wrote:

> 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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