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Intel Edison Announced - Will there be a bunch of Pico Arcades soon?
kahlid74:
If it uses Mame .27 or .8 or anything before .126 I believe. The MAME guys would be better suited to comment on it but at .126 and above was where they started doing a lot of CPU additions.
I like the idea of Edison but I feel like Intel is late to the party. Either way it will be interesting to see what comes to fruition out of this. Lots of cool automation and robot projects I can see.
Vigo:
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--- Quote from: pbj on January 07, 2014, 03:45:44 pm ---Someone didn't read the press release.
Sounds pretty damn neat to me.
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Let me translate...
How much I/O does this have? Enough for a thirteen button CP or just six? If not the user will have to resort to additional hardware, eg a BT gamepad to get that functionality. Press release cites it uses the SoC as Galileo, cool but I don't see twenty plus pins on there.
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It has a standard SD card pinout and what looks like a dozen GPIO pins. That would be enough to run multiple USB 3.0 channels. Don't see the issue. :dunno
SavannahLion:
Did you manage to find a good shot of the pads on the back then? I can see some but not enough to get a good count.
On the flip side. Running USB is still going to add bulk. Why use something the size of a quarter when you need to add enough hardware the size of a (rhetorical) brick to get your functionality? Go straight for the brick, get a Galileo, Raspi or Beaglebone. :dunno
RandyT:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 08, 2014, 01:15:16 pm ---On the flip side. Running USB is still going to add bulk. Why use something the size of a quarter when you need to add enough hardware the size of a (rhetorical) brick to get your functionality? Go straight for the brick, get a Galileo, Raspi or Beaglebone. :dunno
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I see it the same way. It seems like a very niche device, aimed primarily at wearable devices (meh) and tiny robots. I can't think of many other applications where form factor trumps function, other than handheld devices, and I'm not even sure what this would bring to that party, as it seems to be covered pretty well.
ark_ader:
I saw it at the Keynote. I wasn't impressed. :yawn: