[HH] Arduino and Raspberry PI

[Drew Van Zandt]

Look at the TS-7500, about $100, full Debian Linux on ARM with an FPGA
wrapped around it.  Default FPGA load is 8 serial ports, alternate loses 4
serial to get CANbus, code is open source so you can hack your own FPGA
build.

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Drew Van Zandt
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com>wrote:

> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > The Raspberry PI has a good amount of processing, but lacks the I/O
> > to do what the arduino can do.
>
> Not disagreeing, but what sort of I/Os have you wanted that it didn't have?
>
> While you can add I/O expanders, like the Gertboard (see list archives),
> last I saw pricing it was $46, so it adds significantly to the project
> cost.
>
> You would think they would have beefed up the native I/O on the Pi,
> given it was made for hacking, but I guess the educational projects they
> envisioned for it didn't involve that much low-level hardware
> interaction, or at least not enough to justify impacting their $35
> target price. (Their vision seemed to be more about letting each kid
> have their own computer on which to hack software. Not so much about
> hardware interfacing.)
>
> The interesting thought experiment is what would it have added to the
> price to make the Pi Arduino shield compatible, as you suggest. For a
> little bit more product cost, it would reduce the cost of expansion.
>
> There are other ARM-based boards with better I/O and similar performance
> capable of running a full Linux, but you'll pay more than $35, and
> you'll have a much smaller supporting community.
>
>  -Tom
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