Over the past few months, a number of companies and designers have started picking up the newest Intel SoCs. Intel has to kill ARM somehow, right? These are proper PCs, with the ability to run Windows 10, Linux, and just about every other environment under the sun. The specs for the Lattepanda include a quad-core Cherry Trail running at 1. Peripherals include USB 3. In my day we walked uphill both ways to get a parallel port, but I digress. Intel wants the low-power SoC market, a space until now reserved entirely for ARM-based devices. Posted in , Tagged , , , , Post navigation About the only thing I will question on your post is — why would you need an Arduino clone on a Pi? But yes, if you need the processing power, faster ethernet, RAM or x86 compatibility, the LattePanda is a better bet Okay, so that makes a couple of questions… Microcontrollers support real time control in a way that a CPU is not designed to match. Using them intelligently in conjuntion allows far better machine control than you can achieve separately and having one natively onboard is just convient for controlling complex embedded devices. It also allows you to do things like having the 1uA controller monitor a device you want to control and wake the main board up only when it is going to be needed. Any other manufacturer-intentional exposure of this internal bus to the user is likely to be purpose-structured e. So a common user work-around to this problem is to hang a cheap microcontroller on whatever GPIO is available, and use it to communicate with and buffer external user GPIO through software drivers. An externally connected microcontroller can also be used to expand the number of GPIO ports available to the user. I hope this explanation helps. My first thought too. That little guy should make for a great little basic Windows computer. It is more like laptop life than tablet life. And that people complain about getting it for free! You pay with your privacy. If you told those same people how much information their children would trade to use those services they would not laugh. Back in the mainframe days, software WAS free. But who wants a free video camera in their bathroom? A gift from Microsoft, at no cost to you! Who wants a free GPS tracker implanted in their forehead? Their anti-competitive exclusivity requirements already did that in the 1990s. Knowing the sort of sinister shit that goes on in software and business these days only makes me more so. Last time I checked, though, CherryTrail support under Linux was incredibly rudimentary, lacking stable drivers for graphics, network, storage eMMC , and especially audio. Getting non-Windows drivers for most ANY modern Intel SoCs and even third-party peripherals is a NIGHTMARE these days. Give WINE under Linux a chance then. WineASIO plus Jack installation needs some time but will pay a lot. I can move copy, backup etc the entire working environment just by copying the. Sounds like a lot of work just so that he can say he uses Linux. Although I do love Linux, one should use the right tool for the job. I agree with you on principle, but fact is that Linux already hosts a lot if VSTs in well known studios worldwide. It has some nice software but the interface is ugly as sin. I hope Microsoft is reading. I might be a little shallow judging a system largely on the interface, but the interface is what I am interacting with every day. I would upgrade in a second if there were a classic mode or some other way to add in the depth the pre-8 systems had. I did see a link to PC Magazine about shutting off a bunch of Win10 snoops, so I think I will go with the transfer. Currently, she prefers her Vista yeccch! Not making your point — — — i understand the form factor is smaller than tablet — but if i can get tablet for 70 … why would i pay 80 for board? Different boards for different people. Here we have a board that can handle computer vision processing and then send the results to the internal Arduino for talking to the outside world. The Arduino can also get the values from different sensors and present it to the Windows 10 Atom for heavier calculation. The Arduino runs one task. The Atom will be running many tasks so that real time processing and capturing events will be more problematic. I can see this board being a boon to robot developers or people who want a Windows system that talks nicely to the outside world. This Barebone is made for a different purpose than tablets. Mostly für headless Servers or Tinkering Atmel Coprocessor. It can be used as a Desktop replacement or Media Center, but thats not the main purpose. It also beats every cheap Tablet in terms of hardware Ethernet, USB3 and Quadcore. Both are modern languages. Both compile to equivalent code and run against the same runtime libraries. Honestly, I write in both languages and the only problem I have is that I keep putting semicolons at the end of my lines in VB. More practically, we have a ton of stuff written in VB. You would be correct. Net, F , C , IronPython, or any other. Net language all compile to CIL Common Intermediate Language. Not sure how mono works, but the typical. Net framework compiles the CIL on demand to native code this allows it to target multiple processors with the same executable , and while it technically could be implemented as a virtual machine, it is not a virtual machine like some people think at least not on Windows. You can in the latest C compile directly to native code to eliminate JIT delays and improve optimization if your target is known. In previous versions and in VB you can pre-compile as well, it just generates companion files with the native code pre-generated same optimization level as the JIt however Our products where I work run on. Net unfortunately and I would like to use them at home. There is no love from Mono for this one due to WinForms. I want it small, out of the way and to consume little power. This would be great for that. It will only ever see light use by 2, maybe 3 people. I will probaby stick the guts in the case of some old, dead rackmount device. You could install an SSH server on it and you might be surprised how much can be done in Windows from the commandline. No matter what though, you running against the stampede when you do that. Need to know how to get something done? Similarly you could use a GUI when configuring a Linux server but you would only be making things harder on yourself. Use Windows as it was intended, use Linux as it was intended. It is much more peaceful that way. Depends where your config bit is. Could use file shares. Most admin tools like Regedit have the ability to connect to another machine as long as its enabled and you have the right to do so. I image one of the big features of the windows board is that it would be easy to add it to the domain, then you can push policy or update packages to it from the domain controller. The intel compute stick runs full Windows 10 and Linux and although it is more expensive than this, it is much smaller. At the end of the day, there are big disadvantages to running Windows 10 over running Linux on a computer that is going to be used in projects especially where GPIO is involved I could argue for all other things too but that would be slightly out of the bounds of this thread. Why would I buy one relatively powerful computer if I can buy two less powerful but equally useful computer for the same price? And why would Windows 10 be better than Linux, for the tasks that I would use a small SBC like this for? Even NOW, Intel and Microsoft are still trying to keep their Wintel franchise alive. Where Microsoft bloats the software, and Intel delivers faster and faster processor to keep the software alive. Embedded computers need to be cheap, so that we can apply one for every task around the house or factory , and they need to network together if they need to know about each other. And they need to be just powerful enough for their alotted task, because: power equals price. Raspberry understands that business model. Part technical information, part bitch fight. No need to get your real-life ego involved in an Internet fight. And engineering types have never been known for their appreciation of social niceties. Coulda saved some typing. Why not just get a Beaglebone Green with a RTOS if you want to run a embedded system? This PandaMilk product OTOH looks to be just another Windows device. I think people being a bit quick to judge Microsoft here, as their IoT ideas are pretty neat imho. Aside from finally delivering on a promise of a single OS scale-able to all devices, their concept of IoT + Hololens seems pretty awesome to me. As for privacy concerns — of course disable everything you want and be aware. Firewall and customize your PC to your liking.
