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On the other hand, do you have experience with Android tooling or its APIs?
Yes, I am familiar with them. The tooling has been really good of late. Android Studio has really improved and it is no longer as bad as it was with Eclipse.
Welp. Two hours in and the comments are shaping up as you'd expect on HN. Is it really so hard to empathize with people who have different skill sets than yourself? Yes, C would be more efficient. Yes, this wouldn't be very cost effective used in a high volume product. Yes, it's a little funky to write a web page just to plonk your script tag in there. But, if you spend all day doing front-end dev with jQuery and jus…
I agree, and I come from an old-school C and embedded background. If you do it in C, you have the opposite problem: interacting with the hardware is easy, speaking to a web API becomes a huge pain. There's an "impedance mismatch", which has to be overcome somewhere. And computing power is getting cheaper and cheaper. We're at the point where if you have a little board in a case with some I/O connectors, the CPU will…
Solid clean C API. Phone does all the heavy web-lifting, it really is best of both worlds.
Also PebbleCloud is one of the slickest web IDEs I've seen(working emulator streaming over VPN!).
Specs: SoC: RK3066 Memory: DDR3 1GB NAND Flash: 1GB microHDMI female microUSB x 1 (OTG) USB x 1 microUSB x 1 (UART debug) GPIO > 1 (Configurable) I2C 2 UART 2 SPI 2 Audio analog stereo IN x 1 / OUT x 1 PWM 1 Analog IN x 1
Target price?
* BBB has 4GiB on-board storage vs Chirimen's 1GiB
* BBB has 512MiB RAM vs Chirimen's 1GiB
* BBB has no analog audio in/out, but
Chirimen has no on-board networking
* You can buy a BeagleBone board right now.
1. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-16241
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA7E7b5mWh4
This is pretty cool, but imo raspberrypi is making micro-controllers obsolete. Why would you bother with such a limited environment when you can have a full linux environment + GPIO for like $10 more.
This is pretty cool, but imo raspberrypi is making micro-controllers obsolete. Why would you bother with such a limited environment when you can have a full linux environment + GPIO for like $10 more.
Obviously Mozilla still doesn't know why Firefox OS/phone failed.
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If you know C, you will love Arduino. It's very easy to "to speak to a web API". They are usually low power 8-bit CPUs with 16 MHz, exactly right for small projects like blinking some lights that should run on battery for years. JavaScript/Python/etc on RaspherryPi or this new Mozilla thingy are interesting too, though will drain your battery faster. You need an OS on a 32bit CPU. If it's connected to the web you sho…
I thought Arduinos didn't come with Ethernet on the chip, and instead you have a Heath-Robinson addon board which you speak SPI to another microprocessor which has the TCP/IP stack, MAC and PHY on? The only thing I've seen that seems to really be viable for remote battery operation is the ESP2866. I have a Pi in my cupboard reading the electricity meter. I really ought to learn Arduino, simply because it's so popular…
Accurate?
Obviously Mozilla still doesn't know why Firefox OS/phone failed.
that's simply wrong. FxOS for phones didn't fail and Mozilla knows whats going on. Maybe some bad communication and PR, that's sad.
Any new phone shipped with firefox os? Nobody buys it. It totally failed.