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Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
An anonymous reader writes: The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, and much more. Today the Raspberry Pi 3 was announced, featuring a 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, making it roughly 10x the speed of the original Pi 1. Many people will be pleased to hear that the Raspberry Pi 3 also features on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, greatly improving the device's connectivity. The new device goes on sale today at the usual price of US $35. (Here's the official announcement itself.)
Try an ESP 8266 for interfacing a garage door you need what a few inputs and a handful of outputs?
No sir I dont like it.
The original USB ethernet had problems with the poly-fuses blowing out under load. That's not a problem now with later Pis.
Different problem. That was about the raspi resetting.
The throughput is still shit, a theoretical maximum of 480Mbps notwithstanding.
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Specifically the GL-inet 6416 has dual ethernet, 2.4GHz wifi, one USB socket, a MIPS processor (Atheros AR9330) with 64 megabytes of RAM and 16 megabytes of flash, and 5 easily accessible GPIOs. It's not much, but it's good cheap fun.
The founder of Pi worked at Broadcom, Broadcom gave them buttloads of code and chips for next to nothing, therefore it made 100% sense to build a board that is simple and easy to use based on this type of cheap and well known tech. Broadcom is using the Pi as a springboard into other projects using the whole Razor vs. Razor Blade methodology of sales. Broadcom may be making very thin margins but they are still making some profit on the chips and boards.
Intel already tried build a Pi type board, it doesn't have anywhere near the amount of applications the Pi does so why bother using it?
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If you are going the ESP8266 route, go to Adafruit, they have it mounted on some interesting breakout boards that make life easy.
Good-bye
The glinet one I was talking about. Works great for small projects and has proper ethernet.
The ESP 8266 is more than capable of integrating with higher level controllers. BTLE is not realy in it's bag of tricks, wifi obviously is. In my case higher level app is tracking phones to open up when I am about to pull into the driveway. Though I use a off the shelf bit to interface with the garage door (myq gateway) to keep my insurance guy happy.
No sir I dont like it.
VideoCore4 cannot access more than 1Gb of RAM
And on the RPi, VC4 acts like a Northbridge - the ARM cores will do all RAM and IO access trough the VC4.
So unless Boradcom updates VideoCore with more address lines, All RPis will have max 1Gb or RAM.
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Try an Intel NUC. I use the latest 14nm version with OpenElec/XBMC installed as my everyday HTPC. I even used a 2 GB stick of ram to keep costs low. I boot mine off the SD card slot, because i dont have a lot of card access beside boot up. You have sata and m.2 inside if you want it.
This particular NUC
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-NU...
is the dividing line between x86-64 and ARM at the low power end. Compared to the Pi, its expensive, but its robust feature set makes up for it. I use and recommend both NUCs and Pis. The NUC5 series even has GPIO.
http://www.intel.com/content/w...
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