[chbot] The small micro board with everything?

[Michael Field]

Humm, that's really odd for you Volker.

I just registered and downloaded the SDK zip, without any hassles. The 
'SDK' is actually a set of extensions for Arduino. Once installed it 
gives your the board option of "Arduino ARM (32-bit) boards/LinkIt". 
After selecting to use that board type. I opened up the GPS demo hit the 
verify button and it build fine - "Sketch uses 37,672 bytes (0%) of 
program storage space. Maximum is 10,485,760 bytes.". Can't see too much 
time wasted..

The design reference has pretty much the standard - Eagle .brd and .sch, 
and the physical datasheets for the chips (e.g. packaging and electrical 
specs).

Sure the EPO data is required for a quick TTFF, but it isn't essential.


Mike

On 15/09/2014 12:30 a.m., Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Tue 09 Sep 2014 17:27:38 NZST +1200, Michael Field wrote:
>
>> http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-ONE-p-2017.html  - US$80
> Contains a Mediatek CPU. Mediatek is known to not supply datasheets for
> their CPUs used in android devices so android derivatives (e.g.
> cyanogenmod) can be ported. Remember their GPS silicon needs to be
> primed with proprietary binary data on a regular basis (< 30 days).
>
> The SDK for that board can supposedly be downloaded from their so-called
> website, if that wasn't self-destructing with a grails runtime error and
> stack trace on submission of the registration form. Impossible to find
> out if the SDK even runs on my computer. Mediatek and open source
> doesn't sound like a working combination.
>
> My initial assessment: electronic junk. ARM chips from NXP etc will
> waste less time.
>
> Volker
>