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Local Bros Make Good

tomcrawfordtomcrawford Posts: 1,126
edited 2014-07-26 14:03 in General Discussion
Here is a pointer to an article in today's Sacarmento Bee:

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/26/6583727/cathie-anderson-computer-whiz.html

Comments

  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-07-26 09:05
    Nice article Tom. Thanks for sharing.

    Jim
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2014-07-26 12:25
    Nice article, but why are they calling the Propeller an expensive chip?
    Protoboards are $20 each. Then there's the mini($25) which can be mounted directly onto a solderless breadboard.

    What does a BS2 retail at?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-07-26 13:02
    Because the Propeller is an expensive chip perhaps.

    People might compare to other micro-controllers like the STM32F101V8T6 which is about about a third of the price from my local electronics distributor. With 10K RAM, 64K FLASH, 36MHz CPU, 80 I/O pins, sixteen channels of 12 bit A2D and all the usual UART, PWM, I2C, SPI stuff.

    Of course such simple comparisons miss what the Propeller is all about and what you select will depend on your actual task. Horses for courses and all that.

    Parallax boards are also expensive when you compare to amazing cheap things like the STM32F4 Discovery for example.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-07-26 13:24
    Heater. wrote: »
    Because the Propeller is an expensive chip perhaps.

    But now that we can get Quickstart boards for $7.97USD at Radio Shack , that's cheaper than the chip, (QTY 1). :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-07-26 13:30
    Nice for you. Whilst RS are having their closing down sale. No such sweet deals around here:)
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-07-26 13:36
    Heater. wrote: »
    Nice for you. Whilst RS are having their closing down sale. No such sweet deals around here:)

    @heater

    I have been stocking up on the cheap boards. Do you want me to post a couple to you?
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,516
    edited 2014-07-26 14:01
    Publison wrote: »
    @heater

    I have been stocking up on the cheap boards. Do you want me to post a couple to you?
    Keep in mind that all of these cheap RS boards are Rev A. That's probably find for most things but Parallax is now selling Rev B which fixes some issues related to downloading code.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-07-26 14:03
    Thanks for the kind offer Publison but I will decline.

    I actually have a few DIP Propeller's, my favourite kind, here. One of which I'm busy welding to a proto board as we speak. Then there is my Gadget Gangster board and Cluso's TriBlade and RamBlades. My PropASC got loaned out.

    Then I have a vast array of other toys, Esruinos, STM32F4 Discovery, Parallela, Raspberry Pi, IGEP...

    Oh and the FPGA board waiting for the P2 image to play with!

    Perhaps someone else has more time and would appreciate your offer.
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