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$100 for something vastly inferior to a Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc. that cost 1/2 to 1/3 of that. What am I missing here?
Equally as ill-conceived and/or misdirected as other "language du jour"-specific chips of times past? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
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Equally as ill-conceived and/or misdirected as other "language du jour"-specific chips of times past? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Jazelle still exists in newer ARMs; ARM shot its own foot off by keeping it closed, so its use is limited to a few corporates.
$100 for something vastly inferior to a Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc. that cost 1/2 to 1/3 of that. What am I missing here?
Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.
Disregarding the actual device price, the other issue here is the expensive module pricing. Let's face it, if you're buying this because you want to do things the simple way then you're going to be buying modules. Ambient light + MicroSD card? That'll be $50 please. Too many electronics outfits shaft consumers like this and too many electronics hobbyists put up with it.
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Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.
I think for many people cost is the most important factor. People who bought the RPi did so because it was so cheap that it was practically an impulse purchase. Disregarding the actual device price, the other issue here is the expensive module pricing. Let's face it, if you're buying this because you want to do things the simple way then you're going to be buying modules. Ambient light + MicroSD card? That'll be $50…
$100 for something vastly inferior to a Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc. that cost 1/2 to 1/3 of that. What am I missing here?
Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.
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You don't have to write in low-level C. You can write in high level C++, which is vastly preferable to javascript! Or hell, why not write in Lua! It's what this apparently transpiles to, and is much nicer. The only reason javascript became popular is because it was the only option on the web. Why does that mean we would want to use it when we have better options?
> You can write in high level C++, which is vastly preferable to javascript! First, C++ compilers are not available everywhere. Second, C++ compilers do not always implement all corners of the language on embedded systems. Third, C++ is better than Javascript? That's going to take some explanation. > Or hell, why not write in Lua! Lua has it's own share of "Wat". 1-based indexing when a non-trivial amount of your stu…
Give it a bit more and you can get a full UI up and running with a WPF variant!
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Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.
So...people who want to play around with hardware development without actually learning anything about hardware development? How is that helpful? Why not just learn what you need to learn and do it right the first time?
Higher level abstractions in computing are of obvious value. Many more people know Javascript than know HDL, an assembly variant or even C. It's pretty obvious why this would be helpful. If you know a little bit of Javascript you can get out of the browser and have physical stuff happen. Pretty neat hack if you ask me.
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Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.
So...people who want to play around with hardware development without actually learning anything about hardware development? How is that helpful? Why not just learn what you need to learn and do it right the first time?
Do you honestly think that there is anyone out there who bought a Tessel instead of an Arduino/Raspberry/etc.? Every single person I know who ordered a Tessel is someone who wasn't interested in hardware originally AT ALL. The premise of the Tessel got them interested in playing around with hardware.
Edit: I answered this seriously because I assumed OP was a serious comment. After re-reading, I'm not certain, so I apologize if it wasn't.
$100 for something vastly inferior to a Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc. that cost 1/2 to 1/3 of that. What am I missing here?
Lower barrier of entry for people interested in playing around with hardware development. No breadboards and wires, only pluggable modules. Javascript instead of C.