I suppose Minnowboard has started to target the open-source community through Minnowboard MAX which uses Intel processor. Intel Galileo already made waves throughout the Globe by signing with Arduino for its freeware IDE, and here is another open source platform through Minnowboard MAX. It is a compact, powerful board for the makers and professional community. The Minnowboard MAX official page says that it is not PC and it is open hardware embedded platform is for embedded applications or product development, where you can use this for I2C sensors, complicated embedded development and lots others. It has two variants which differ in storage, and processing capability and of course price 1st Variant – $99 2nd Variant – $139 Some other specifications are given below Category Feature Notes Core Logic 64-bit Intel Atom E38xx Series SoC $99, single-core, 1.46 GHz$139, dual-core, 1.33 GHz Intel Integrated HD Graphics With open source hardware-accelerated drivers for Linux OS Memory DDR3 RAM System Memory$99 – 1 GB $139 – 2 GB 8 MB SPI Flash System Firmware Memory Video Intel HD Graphics HDMI(micro HDMI connector) It also boasts some other specifications like Ethernet, audio, etc. The list of Input, Output devices is given in official website. The operating system that can be used in this board are: Debian Gnu/Linux Yocto Project Compatible Android 4.4 System And as per official information this board will be for its enhanced and exceptional performance, flexibility, openness and standard. And they will be out in the market by the end of June- 2014. I am really not sure, whether we can use it for PC, by seeing the features and specifications; I suppose there is no way it shouldn’t work as PC. Well, keeping fingers crossed about this Check the below video to know more about Intel MinnowBoard...
From our childhood we are very much thrilled in programming Intel processor as to how they would behave with our rookie programs, it was Arduino which said us, chap no need to worry, I am nothing just try me. And now Arduino which has revolutionized this is now reaching the extreme heights at present. We have seen much about Arduino in previous post, and if anyone wonders how can it get big. Here are your answer guys. “INTEL GALILEO” for those of you who doesn’t know what it is. Keep reading. Just Imagine Arduino signing with Intel for development board “ But its reality that’s what “INTEL GALILEO” is all about, it is the first board made of Intel architecture designed to be compatible with Arduino Uno R3 boards. Having said this all Arduino shield which could be used with Arduino Uno R3 could be used with Intel development boards. So doing all the same stuff with Intel processor sounds great. Many Arduino boards like Arduino Due, is limited in a way that it could operate only on 3.3 volts but this “INTEL GALILEO” could be operated both in 3.3 as well as 5 volts. Of course guys, you could integrate this with Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and most important of all you could use your Arduino Ethernet library to connect to webpage with 100 MB Ethernet port, without any modification such is the power of INTEL GALILEO. And it has RTC (Real time Clock), it will be tracking the time even when the power is off using 3 volt coin cell. And one more thing, works even with PCI express mini cards man that’s sounds crazy, USB host port, microSD support A Linux distribution is loaded onto 8 MB flash memory, you can boot from SD card image that Intel provides. Galileo is a micro-controller board based on Intel QuarkSoC 1000 Application Processor Physical Characteristics 10 cm long and 7 cm wide with the USB connectors, UART jack, Ethernet connector, and power jack extending beyond the former dimension Four screw holes allow the board to be attached to a surface or case Reset button to reset the sketch and any attached shields Processor Features Instruction set architecture (ISA)-compatible 32-bit Intel® Pentium® processor 16 KB L1 cache 512 KB (on-die embedded SRAM) Simple to program: single thread, single...
Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer designed with an aim to teach the basic of computer science in schools. This credit card sized computer was released on 29February 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. So far, there are two models available in Raspberry Pi, such as Model A Model B The difference between Raspberry Pi’s Model A and Model B are tabulated below: Description Model A Model B SDRAM 256 MB 512 MB On Board Network Nil...
