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Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by afandian »

RBerenguel wrote: post #79
aquarin wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My CHIP still not delivered. They re-scheduled 3 times the delivery. The last was 3 Oct. Today I received the "happy" news this will be shipped at the beginning of Nov. The initial shipment was June when I ordered in March.

I ordered a TextBlade (small-form factor bluetooth keyboard with pretty nifty technology) on March 2015 for delivery on June 2015 (not a Kickstarter, mind you) and I'm still waiting (actually all purchasers are, except for a beta testing group).

I was thinking of buying one recently but couldn't find any reviews on YouTube which seemed suspect. Do you expect to ever get it?

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by WillPostForFood »

idle_zealot wrote: post #31
WillPostForFood wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got mine a few weeks ago and love it. Pico-8 is wonderful, I haven't done much besides mess with that.

Really? I find Pico-8 is barely playable with the keyboard. Are you using a bluetooth controller?

I plug a usb keyboard in, but more for coding. I don't mind playing the less twitchy stuff on the built in keyboard.

Re: CHIP Pro

#93

Post by Dowwie »

IgorPartola wrote: post #33
platz wrote: post #22

I 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.

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…

Did you finish that ESP8266-based garage door opener? Why did you choose wifi for that?

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by Nanite »

rxseger wrote: post #71
IgorPartola wrote: post #33

Earlier 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…

+1 for using Raspberry Pi for home automation. I'm just getting into electronics but have found the Pi indispensable for this purpose: without much effort, I now have Pi Zero running Homebridge with plugins and hardware to control an AC power outlet switch, ambient temperature and humidity sensors, three contact sensors, and another Raspberry Pi 3 also running Homebridge with a light sensor, fan speed controller (PWM…

The D1 mini definitely is nice, I have a dozen of them running all over the house, controlling the lights, monitoring CO2, temp, humidity, power/gas/water usage the works. Do get the feeling that they might start congesting my router, but have a pi home server in the works to prevent that.

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by wiz21c »

platz wrote: post #22

I 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 used my rpi to try to take a picture of a rodent which was making noise in my ceiling :-)

Since I had no infrared camera, I had to use a light which most probably scared the rodent :-)

So, I had a few pictures of nothing and no more rodent.

So in some way, the rpi did help :-)

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

wiz21c wrote: post #95
platz wrote: post #22

I 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 used my rpi to try to take a picture of a rodent which was making noise in my ceiling :-) Since I had no infrared camera, I had to use a light which most probably scared the rodent :-) So, I had a few pictures of nothing and no more rodent. So in some way, the rpi did help :-)

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Re: CHIP Pro

#97

Post by musha68k »

idle_zealot wrote: post #31
WillPostForFood wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got mine a few weeks ago and love it. Pico-8 is wonderful, I haven't done much besides mess with that.

Really? I find Pico-8 is barely playable with the keyboard. Are you using a bluetooth controller?

Still better than capacitive touch display based controls :) and I simply love playing with pico-8 on my commute from/to the office!

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by uola »

Animats wrote: post #40

Great hardware, but do you really want to run a full Linux system on low-end IoT devices? That's what made the recent massive DDOS attack possible - lots of little machines with way too much network-side functionality. Linux just has too much attack surface.

No, you don't. You want your devices to be simple and talk to a bridge that runs e.g. Linux and handles networking. But at the moment this is where the ecosystem is at.

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by fingar »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #37

i 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 implemented what is needed.

6. Most important, same day Linux kernel support for the GR8 in Linus's tree. The commit was accepted a few days ago.

Re: CHIP Pro

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Post by ssalazar »

Animats wrote: post #40

Great hardware, but do you really want to run a full Linux system on low-end IoT devices? That's what made the recent massive DDOS attack possible - lots of little machines with way too much network-side functionality. Linux just has too much attack surface.

The hobbyist/non-technical market can get on board better with Linux. For one it has a GUI. Also you don't have to write firmware and you dont have to cobble all the pieces together from scratch or from a miscellany of out-of-date examples. Instead you can pipe together existing software and/or write your own in the high-level language of your choice.
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