It ain’t a Pi killer, and it ain’t cheap… and it ain’t ARM based.. and it ain’t capable of running Windoze… so who is likely to use it?
Arduino 101 will be incorporated into the Creative Technologies in the Classroom (CTC) physical computing curriculum developed and tested by our team and currently deployed in over 300 schools. CTC is the world’s first formal physical computing curriculum for elementary and secondary school classrooms and provides educators with the tools, support and confidence needed to introduce their students to the foundations of programming, electronics and mechanics.
YAC (yet another compiler) to install, I suspect. Maybe those terabyte notebook drives will become necessary.
Ray
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With the original Arduino 8-bit boards, changes were slow, but the knowledge base and libraries grew and newbies had mounds of technical material and a ready base of code and many active forum membets to help them mature. Those days may be gone forever. Here in the STM32 forum, I have been amazed at the quickness of fragmentation of interest – not that it is a bad thing, just an obvious evolution.
Ray
It ain’t a Pi killer, and it ain’t cheap… and it ain’t ARM based.. and it ain’t capable of running Windoze… so who is likely to use it?
One thing that struck me looking at the blog post was
80 kB of SRAM (24kB available for sketches)
Why only 24k for sketches ? What’s it doing with the 56k. Why bother saying its got 80k when its not usable.
Well, perhaps its accessible by some functions for data storage, e.g. a bit like the PROGMEM stuff in AVR.
But it smacks of marking hype when they don’t say 24k SRAM
PS. I considered posting this as a response to that blog posting,but it looks like the “Arduino” account required to post is not the same as the forum account… So I can’t really be bothered, as I suspect that if I posted that they’d take down responses that were negative
Why only 24k for sketches ? What’s it doing with the 56k. Why bother saying its got 80k when its not usable.
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and its 56k not 64 for some reason…. i.e 80 – 24 = 56 when I was at school … (Ray )
and its 56k not 64 for some reason…. i.e 80 – 24 = 56 when I was at school … (Ray )
The irony of wearables is that the Xiaomi Mi Band I have sports a Cortex-M0 and uses a very basic 3 LED status array on the device activated by a gesture and relies on bluetooth offload to an app to give you details. Even with a dinky 40mAh battery, I can get > 30 days between charges. Handy because I mainly use it as a sleep tracker and as a silent alarm because it has a built in haptic motor. I think my wife appreciates not having a blaring alarm at 5:30am when she doesn’t have to be up that early.
Back on topic, I find the Curie a strange choice since it’s aimed at wearables. Perhaps they are trying to leverage Arduino for RAD? I suppose teaching folks to program for IMUs would be neat, but we are already seeing stuff like the BOSCH BNO055 that has a Cortex built in and spits out absolute orientations so that the host uC doesnt need to do the crunching.
The irony of wearables is that the Xiaomi Mi Band I have sports a Cortex-M0 and uses a very basic 3 LED status array on the device activated by a gesture and relies on bluetooth offload to an app to give you details
BLE SOC devices seem to be very much coming to the fore at the moment.
The new BBC micro uses a Nordic BLE device as well.
The older BLE devices like the TI CC2540/2541 were only powered by 8051 derivatives ( albeit powerful derivatives), but the Nordic devices are ARM and could be used to replace a lot if existing MCU + separate BLE products
I have a few Nordic based BLE modules that I was hoping to experiment with, but there are never enough hours in the day
