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Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the powerful-kits dept.

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.

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  1. Pffff by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Informative

    $369. No.

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
  2. $369 by gmack · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure Intel quite understands the concept.

  3. Re:Looks like the first two posters... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    369$ for a development tool that is well documented?

    In the corporate development world that is pretty much giving them away.

  4. Re:Looks like the first two posters... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.