GertDuino??? OK, where's PropPi??
mindrobots
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Looks like the train has left the station and the Propeller still doesn't have a ticket:
From RaspberryPi.org's front page today.
I'm not a hardware guy (I can barely do software) but come on forumistas (and all you clever Parallax employees), seriously!! As many have said, this seems like an excellent opportunity for Propeller exposure on a BROAD front with a little time and effort. Is it REALLY that hard to get a simple Propeller board that can interface to a Raspberry Pi?? There has actually been one on the forum but the creator seems reluctant to go further with it.
There's been a lot of talk but little action. What's the problem? If somebody with board design skills needs a RasPi to work with, drop me a PM, I have a t least one to spare toward this IMPORTANT effort. Am I missing some critical factor that makes this IMPOSSIBLE? We've gotten a QuickStart HIB board, a universal memory/SD board, a new Protoboard, a new QuickWiz board....what's up with missing a BIG opportunity??
(oops!, I may have ranted a bit!)
From RaspberryPi.org's front page today.
Were very excited about GertDuino. Its basically an Arduino that mounts onto your Raspberry Pi, creating an all-in-one development environment but unlike your standard Arduino, as well as having an Atmega 328 microcontroller, it also incorporates an Atmega 48 which gives you an IRDA interface, a battery backup power supply, and a high-precision real-time clock, which many of you have been asking for. The Atmega 328 is Arduino-Uno® compatible, so you can clip on shields to your hearts content. There are push buttons, a reset button, and a spangly array of LEDs Gert feels that where one LED is great, six is always better. We love it.
Gert says:
There has been a discussion on the forum from the beginning about the partnership that a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino can have. Both have their pros and cons, but together theyre great. So I decided to combine the two. But I wanted to do more than just add a microcontroller. The idea is that Gertduino can be programmed and developed on the PI, but then unplugged and used standalone. That is why there is a second controller with real-time-clock and IRDA interface. Plug in a motor shield and you can e.g. open the door of your chicken scoop I]Liz interjects: Gert's first language is not English, and I am pretty sure he means [B]coop[/B], not [B]scoop[/B], unless he's got into meat processing when we weren't looking[/I every morning at 8 am. Or you can point a remote control at it and close your curtains from your chair. I added the RS232 interface so you can connect two boards over a long cable. It is the combination of these individual features which makes it so powerful.
I'm not a hardware guy (I can barely do software) but come on forumistas (and all you clever Parallax employees), seriously!! As many have said, this seems like an excellent opportunity for Propeller exposure on a BROAD front with a little time and effort. Is it REALLY that hard to get a simple Propeller board that can interface to a Raspberry Pi?? There has actually been one on the forum but the creator seems reluctant to go further with it.
There's been a lot of talk but little action. What's the problem? If somebody with board design skills needs a RasPi to work with, drop me a PM, I have a t least one to spare toward this IMPORTANT effort. Am I missing some critical factor that makes this IMPOSSIBLE? We've gotten a QuickStart HIB board, a universal memory/SD board, a new Protoboard, a new QuickWiz board....what's up with missing a BIG opportunity??
(oops!, I may have ranted a bit!)
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I cannot reveal info that is not mine to reveal but I have heard, in the wind shall we say, that a PropPi board is in the works at a secret laboratory run my a famous Parallaxian who is well known for producing quality product.
The Prop should really not miss out on the potential of two million, and rising, Raspberry Pi owners many of whom would love a Prop even if just as a simple I/O expander. Or a nice VGA Terminal. Etc Etc.