I can't seem to find any mention of the specific OS these use. Anyone?
https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP_Pro-Hardware/blob/master... suggests it's GadgetOS, which appears to be a New Thing. Anyone have any info on it?
CHIP Pro
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#152I have the chip, esp8266, rpi, teensies, trinkets, arduinos... I studied electronics principles and built various circuits.. yet I have no idea what I can practically use these devices for in my life. They all sit in a box and I have a hard time justifying buying more of them.
I have 4 RPi's, a couple of BeagleBone Blacks, numerous Arduino and Teensy boards.
Disclosure: This stuff happens to be my hobby and profession, and I have extensive experience with embedded systems and microprocessor based electronics design.
The smaller boards have been infinitely useful to me. I do a lot of development, using Teensy boards to create peripherals that I can connect via USB to either a PC or a RPi. These peripherals control things like sensors, motors, etc. The microcontroller code serves as a sort of hardware abstraction layer, letting me test and talk to my gadgets via a terminal program.
Admittedly, the RPi's have been less useful. Because my gadgets talk via USB, it's easy to configure my systems so that I can do my higher level software development on either a PC or a RPi. The same software, in Python, runs on both systems with no code changes. So I tend to use the more "comfortable" system for development, and that's the Windows system with its big screen and quick response.
Bill Gates claims to have predicted that more people would be interested in developing software than hardware, and when the software runs on any platform, it gets harder for the lower performance hardware to justify its existence. Most of my projects are finished to my satisfaction without ever completing the final step of transferring them to a RPi to run autonomously.
Maybe the problem is that cross platform portability ultimately makes platforms less important.
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#153I have the chip, esp8266, rpi, teensies, trinkets, arduinos... I studied electronics principles and built various circuits.. yet I have no idea what I can practically use these devices for in my life. They all sit in a box and I have a hard time justifying buying more of them.
Security and media devices are what a lot of people seem to go for, or DIY IoT. I know your pain, I have a few Raspberry Pi's sitting in my draw...
I left one RPi2 at my mother's apartment to work as a NAS; second RPi2 is powering a skeleton for home automation system at my current apartment; a RPi3 sits in the drawer and waits for better days...
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#154Maybe I missed it, but how does the CHIP Pro compare to the previous CHIP?
Previous CHIP has twice the RAM (512MB vs 256MB) and eight times more flash (4GB vs 512MB), and it is much cheaper (9$ vs 16$). The "Pro" CPU has same specs (1GHz ARM v7a). The only advantadge is smaller components, and probably less power consumption. In my opinion, the 8$ CHIP is better than the 16$ "CHIP Pro". Also, for 15$ you can get a Pine64 [1] with much better specs (512MB RAM, 4 ARM64 Cortex A53 cores, ether…
Yeah I'm lost too. The Pro is almost twice the price of the original chip, and afaict the only difference is that it's a little smaller (and has no USB port).
Huh?
I've got a handful of the original CHIPs, and they're great for what they are. But I don't get this "Pro".
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Raspberry Pis and CHIPs: good for a home automation hub of sorts or a thing where you want a portable computer capable of working with video, audio, or large volumes of data. Arduino et al: need to have buttons do more complicated things than buttons can actually do: slowly change light colors, actuate things, CNC, etc. ESP8266: sensors and remote controls for switches and such. Anything Arduino does above, except th…
Raspberry Pi: IR remote for devices around the house: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-turn-your-raspberry-pi-infr... RF remote for more devices: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-remote-control-rf-devices-r... Home server for controlling various things around the house (farther down) ESP8266: A rotary mobile phone: https://www.stavros.io/series/irotary/ A button that orders food when pressed (Amazon-dash-like): https…
I use a Raspberry Pi 2 with KODI[1] for watching porn on my bedroom flat-screen. You can also watch downloaded movies.
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#156>> "GR8 pin names" 33-CSID4-SDC2-CMD-PE8 gotta be kidding
The first number, "33" is the pin number of the CHIP Pro, "CSID4-SDC2-CMD" are the functions, and "PE8" is the actual pin name from the GR8 module. The key on that diagram is confusing.
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#157I have the chip, esp8266, rpi, teensies, trinkets, arduinos... I studied electronics principles and built various circuits.. yet I have no idea what I can practically use these devices for in my life. They all sit in a box and I have a hard time justifying buying more of them.
I recently bought a Wifi Modem for my Commodore 64 that is based off the Arduinos board. OK, that sounds embarrassing when I say it, but I do value it nevertheless. It allows me to connect to some BBSes (!) where like-minded crazy people like me can hang. I think it all has to do with the creativity and/or niche (in my case, a passionate hobby) designers like you can fill.
I've got a little thingy I made myself with a Minimus AVR, to replace a parallel port to BBC Micro cable I bought about 12 years ago, when PCs still had parallel ports. USB cable connects PC to AVR, also providing power, and a bunch of wires connects AVR to BBC.
The AVR pretends to be the original unmodified PC software, translating things to and from the USB protocol that the modified PC software now uses (which was pretty straightforward to do using libusb).
The AVR is 5V, so it just connects directly.
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#158i own the original chip. i don't understand what this thing is about, a higher-spec chip?
The changes are: 1. It is now SiP, not SoC, because the GR8 chip incorporates 512MB RAM! System-in-Package. 2. They made changes here and there so all of the GR8 is open compared to the previous SoC. Most notably I expect the video decoding/encoding in hardware should be unable now. 3. Much smaller form factor. 4. Now has very fast NAND memory, so flash once and forget. 5. Overall they got input from developers and i…
I believe it's 256MB of RAM and 512MB of NAND flash.
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#159I have the chip, esp8266, rpi, teensies, trinkets, arduinos... I studied electronics principles and built various circuits.. yet I have no idea what I can practically use these devices for in my life. They all sit in a box and I have a hard time justifying buying more of them.
exactly what most people were talking about computers before.
think of those things as hobby computers and Intel/amd/arm as the huge inaccessible ivory tower mainframes. you know how you have zero access to any device on your laptop or phone? those things will eventually solve that. but they are hobbyist grade for now.
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#160"Powered by a chip you can actually buy" - lets hope so.
Assuming thats a reference to the rpi Zero which, as of November, has been out a full year and still must be bought one at a time. Seems like we'll never be able to build more than one or two of something based on the zero.
Do wish nextthing would rebrand it because its impossible to Google "chip" and hope to find anything related to this. How about "NESOC" - pronounced "knee sock" and short for nextthing SOC?