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Re: ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices

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Post by joezydeco » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

tokenizerrr wrote: post #67

joezydeco wrote: post #55

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Sorry, I'm a long-time embedded developer and that's gibberish to me. We don't deploy fast. We deploy once.

I'm sure your customers will appreciate that when it turns out you have some massive security vulnerability and you won't be updating anything.

The embedded systems I work on are never internet connected and updated manually by trained service technicians when necessary.

Like the discussion at the top of this thread, we've really muddied up the waters when it comes to defining "embedded devices".

There are devices like mine, which are the early definition of the term (single purpose, low cost, tightly defined I/O) and then we have low cost highly compact computers, literally servers, that can be multi-purpose and are internet connected 100% of the time by design.

Re: ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices

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Post by noonespecial » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 3:00 AM UTC

pharkmillups wrote: post #56

noonespecial wrote: post #37

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>What are RasPi and similar boards lacking? Power management? Not enough GPIO pins? For me its the ability to "blink" (sleep a designated time and then re-awaken for a brief burst of activity) and so perform some task for 6 months straight on a pair of alkaline AA batteries.

If you're looking for a sensor platform that will let you quickly deploy a sensor that will run for a few years on a pair of AAs, check out what we're putting together at Helium [1]. We just rolled out the presale of our Helium Atom Development Board [2] which uses the Atom - our drop in connectivity and compute module - as the basis for a sensor development board that is actually fit for production. The OS that runs…

Don't know if you'll still see this. Cool. But one thing. It would be easier for me to get a sign-off from management on a one time purchase of $10k than a $4/month recurring. Corporate sales is funny like that.

Re: ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices

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Post by mrlambchop » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 3:02 AM UTC

pharkmillups wrote: post #56

noonespecial wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>What are RasPi and similar boards lacking? Power management? Not enough GPIO pins? For me its the ability to "blink" (sleep a designated time and then re-awaken for a brief burst of activity) and so perform some task for 6 months straight on a pair of alkaline AA batteries.

If you're looking for a sensor platform that will let you quickly deploy a sensor that will run for a few years on a pair of AAs, check out what we're putting together at Helium [1]. We just rolled out the presale of our Helium Atom Development Board [2] which uses the Atom - our drop in connectivity and compute module - as the basis for a sensor development board that is actually fit for production. The OS that runs…

I had a Helium in my SF office window for 6 months back when you were doing low power wireless :)