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<p>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."</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Sure, I might waste an evening but it has to be better than a night in front of the TV.</span></p>
<p>May<span style="font-size: 12px;">be 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.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">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!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Mike</span></p>
<p>On 07.07.2014 15:29, Charles Manning wrote:</p>
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<pre>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 <<a href="mailto:hamster@snap.net.nz">hamster@snap.net.nz</a>> wrote:</pre>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I've just signed up on <a href="https://www.windowsondevices.com/">https://www.windowsondevices.com/</a>, 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 <a href="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a> <a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics</a> Mail Archives: <a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/">http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/</a> Web site: <a href="http://kiwibots.org">http://kiwibots.org</a> 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.</blockquote>
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