November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
6h 2m
English

Jeffrey Braverman
INTEL EDISON
$75 including breakout : makershed.com
Intel just started shipping Edison, their postage stamp-sized Linux computer-on-module platform. The board itself has some powerful specs: a dual core, dual threaded 500 MHz Atom processor and a 32-bit, 100 MHz Quark microcontroller for real-time functions. It has 1 gigabyte of RAM, 4 gigabytes of on-board flash memory, wi-fi, Bluetooth, and 40 GPIO pins for interfacing with your own hardware.
To get you started, Intel offers two breakout board options: one that has Arduino pin compatibility; and another that is much smaller for more advanced hardware developers. ...