Does it have a serial port? The general strategy I've seen people use with processing is to create a serial protocol to talk to an mcu. The PC does the high level human interactions and computation, while the mcu does the real time work.
The Chumby hackers also used that approach as well. The Chumby was designed as a consumer product, but hacker friendly.
Does it have a serial port? The general strategy I've seen people use with processing is to create a serial protocol to talk to an mcu. The PC does the high level human interactions and computation, while the mcu does the real time work.
if you can install and use GO lang (similar to C without some of the bloat) there is an option to use propforth
and synchronous serial.
...GO lang (similar to C without some of the bloat)...
That can't be right. Go has a lot more features than C, concurrency for example, and I believe the required run time support is larger. But yes they have removed old junk from C and made it a goal not to make things as complex and ugly as C++. (Hmm..except they kept that stupid notation for octal literals from C, blech).
I can't believe the APC does not have a serial port somewhere as a debug console or such, must keep looking. I'm going to resist the temptation to order one as I have boards and projects piling up here.
It's worthless for experimenters doing real-world stuff. Spend more and get real a experimenters board like the Beagle bone and not have to be locked into Linux as well.
...get real a experimenters board like the Beagle bone and not have to be locked into Linux as well
Wow, that must be the first time in history that being able to run Linux is described as being "locked into Linux". What do you mean?
Anyway after a quick google around I have yet to find any OS for the Beagle Bone that is not Linux based, so unless you have an alternative or I create my own it's seems I am locked into Linux with the Beagle Bone.
I do agree that the APC does not seem to be a hacker/experimenter device. It's obviously not aimed at that market. Which is a shame. Even just a header with some GPIO and UART etc like the Raspi would make it more attractive in that space with almost no extra cost.
Meh, I would have to see how they do in production before building something around these units. Already sold out on two limit, you are looking in the hundreds, curious to see how fast their capacity can recover over multiple customers with larger orders. And you may get a feel for the board from feedback from some of the users who did get one. Interesting to see how fast they can clear the backlog and support long term production.
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The Chumby hackers also used that approach as well. The Chumby was designed as a consumer product, but hacker friendly.
if you can install and use GO lang (similar to C without some of the bloat) there is an option to use propforth
and synchronous serial.
That can't be right. Go has a lot more features than C, concurrency for example, and I believe the required run time support is larger. But yes they have removed old junk from C and made it a goal not to make things as complex and ugly as C++. (Hmm..except they kept that stupid notation for octal literals from C, blech).
I can't believe the APC does not have a serial port somewhere as a debug console or such, must keep looking. I'm going to resist the temptation to order one as I have boards and projects piling up here.
UART_PH
http://apc.io/media/apc/library/apc-pinout.pdf
Wow, that must be the first time in history that being able to run Linux is described as being "locked into Linux". What do you mean?
Anyway after a quick google around I have yet to find any OS for the Beagle Bone that is not Linux based, so unless you have an alternative or I create my own it's seems I am locked into Linux with the Beagle Bone.
I do agree that the APC does not seem to be a hacker/experimenter device. It's obviously not aimed at that market. Which is a shame. Even just a header with some GPIO and UART etc like the Raspi would make it more attractive in that space with almost no extra cost.