A few days ago Intel officialy released the Edison board, which is designed for Makers to create low-cost, low-power electronic systems. The primary target is wearable techology and the internet of things.
Key Features:
- Uses a 22nm Intel® SoC that includes a dual core, dual threaded Intel® Atom™ CPU at 500MHz and a 32-bit Intel® Quark™ microcontroller at 100 MHz. It supports 40 GPIOs and includes 1GB LPDDR3, 4 GB EMMC, and dual-band WiFi and BTLE on a module slighter larger than a postage stamp.
- The Intel Edison module will initially support development with Arduino and C/C++, followed by Node.JS, Python, RTOS, and Visual Programming support in the near future.
- The Intel Edison module includes a device-to-device and device-to-cloud connectivity framework to enable cross-device communication and a cloud-based, multi-tenant, time-series analytics service.
The board it-self is hard to work with, it is not an Arduino like board and need to be interfaced with other boards. But sparkfun released a series of add-ons to go with the Edison board. This includes a basic USB module, a battery module, GPIO block, H-bridge, IMU, PWM servo control, ADC, SD-card, … !!!
All you need to know in this video:
