<div dir="ltr"><div>Google seems to think this is a waste of time, so much so that gmail filed this message away under spam.<br><br></div>I have however put in my order for a free one to have a play with.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Richard Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard_alan_jones@yahoo.com" target="_blank">richard_alan_jones@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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 :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span>Richard<br></span></div></font></span><div><div class="h5"> <div><br><br></div>
<div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Monday, 7 July 2014 4:07 PM, hamster <<a href="mailto:hamster@snap.net.nz" target="_blank">hamster@snap.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>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."</div>
<div><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></div>
<div>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 clear="none">
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<div><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></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12px">Mike</span></div>
<div>On 07.07.2014 15:29, Charles Manning wrote:</div>
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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.
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px;border-left:#1010ff 2px solid;margin-left:5px;width:100%">I've just signed up on <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="https://www.windowsondevices.com/" target="_blank">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 rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" target="_blank">Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics" target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics</a> Mail Archives: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/" target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/</a> Web site: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://kiwibots.org/" target="_blank">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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