[HH] Arduino and Raspberry PI

[Tom Metro]

Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>     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.
> 
> Look at the TS-7500, about $100, full Debian Linux on ARM with an FPGA...

http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7500

Not bad, if that's in your price range.


I was thinking more along the lines of the OLinuXino-Micro ARM9 Linux board:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/09/12/olinuxino-micro-arm9-linux-board-available-at-mouser/

which sells for $30 and has 60 GPIO pins.


Or the cubieboard:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cubieboard-open-arm-box?website_name=cubieboard

which if it ships, might sell for about $50, and has I2C, SPI, ADC, and
a bunch of high-level I/O like USB and SATA.

(Both mentioned in more detail in the list archives.)


I expect we'll see a pile of options like the OLinuXino-Micro selling
for sub-$50.

 -Tom