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Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com)
Devindra Hardawar, writing for Engadget: We've seen plenty of unique dev kits from Intel, including the SD card-sized Edison, but not one as powerful as this. Intel announced Joule today, a tiny maker board that will allow developers to test RealSense-powered concepts and, hopefully, bring the to the market faster than before. The company says the tiny, low-powered Joule would be ideal for testing concepts in robotics, AR, VR, industrial IoT and a slew of other industries. And it also looks like it could be an interesting way for students to dabble in RealSense's depth-sensing technology in schools. There will be two Joule kits to choose from: the 550x, which includes a 1.5GHz quad-core Atom T5500 processor, 3GB of RAM and 8GB of storage; and the 570x, which packs in a 1.7Ghz quad-core Atom T5700 CPU (with burst speeds up to 2.4GHz), 4GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Both models include "laptop-class" 802.11AC wireless, Intel graphics with 4K capture and display support, and a Linux-based OS.
$369. No.
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I'm not sure Intel quite understands the concept.
369$ for a development tool that is well documented?
In the corporate development world that is pretty much giving them away.
The builtin wifi with piggytail antennae is a nice touch, but it is still a step backward from the minnowboard, imo.
Minnowboard has much less processing power and much less ram, but sports an actual sata interface.
Intel seems fixated on having the sdcard be the one and only storage device on these dev boards. Personally, i feel putting a real ssd on here, or a spspiny disk for swap/temp file userver makes the offering far more robust.
I see it has what looks like a mini pie riser zif connector over on the side there, but that means buying in even deeper into their proprietary hardware stream. I would rather have seen an M.2 socket with lock down screw on the back. That at least is industry standard hardware.
Reading these comments make me question how much experience some people actually have with corporate development tools.
The compilers for our development tools cost more than this thing.
Reading these comments make me question how much experience some people actually have with corporate development tools.
The compilers for our development tools cost more than this thing.
Compared to the costs of sourcing parts and developing and manufacturing a custom board, $369 is free.
If you're learning to wiggle gpio pins, a Pi might do you, but if you're doing something that requires a scalable platform that's going into real products, you will want these things available to you to oil the wheels of development.
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I'm still developing for a sub 100 MHz PPC in an embedded environment. These things are nothing short of magic.
There should always be respect for a processor with an EIEIO instruction.
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