[DIYbio] Re: black swift embedded linux platform

On 02/03/2015 04:22 PM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> ..unlike the Pi, it's fully open source, around SD-card sized, and has onboard wifi. Plus, one microUSB-host for a peripheral (or
> hub?)

Hey, that IS good! I'm running openwrt on my router that Judi and I use for cell phone data,
desktop data, and firewalling. I'll have to back that at the 3 modules level.
They've cost reduced this so it's an easy decision to build in as is for low volume projects -- and then they
are available for customized production runs too.

The only little glitch is they do not say they have FCC certification done yet, and how long it will take.

I'm glad kickstarter changed rules to allow multiple quantities of deliverables. For a while you
had to choose to either deliver a five pack or a one pack and not both...


" If it comes wifi-ready, then I'm sold! I'm a bit of a russophile, too!"

Me too.

At 120 mA typical power consumption it is a little more than the micropython board,
but then it's linux + openwrt which is allowing a huge range of code to run easily
without having to fiddle with C language on underpowered microcontrollers,
so the only thing micropython has on it is lower cost bill of materials.

I see micropython as being good for very cost reduced machines that are going to be used
in automation systems as a group to do a task. Each component needs to be inexpensive
almost to the point of throw away. Those kinds of systems will use Bluetooth Low Energy
to communicate with a gateway black swift and from there go on a LAN, not
the internet... A BLE add on daughter-card might be the first thing I do with one of my three black swifts.

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