New Arduino SBC from the Broadcom buyout

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Be interesting to see what it costs, could be great for Node-RED.

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Ā£42.30 incl. VAT (2Gb)
Ā£56.70 incl. VAT (4Gb)
Stock: Coming Soon

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It will be really interesting to see how well the local AI processing works.

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What caught my attention is a qwiic connector having few seconds in this animation haha

It is almost as if there are not much to be shown

But it is really cool. Way cheaper than nvidia edson something

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It was Qualcomm that bought Arduino, not Broadcomm... Guess Massimo got his pay day. :slight_smile: Good for him.

I thought Microchip would someday make a real offer for Arduino after the Atmel purchase... if anything to capture a large user base in IoT... but I suspect ESP32 took a bit of that user base as well.

Arduino's migration away from AVR was rocky. I was one of the early adopters of the DUE with it's cortex-m3 core and ARMv7-M architecture and 3.3v operation... Just had to work to migrate everything as so many libraries broke. Literally started looking over at Raspberry Pi in those days... Of course, now we are faced with so much being broken in terms of GPIO and Comms with Raspberry PI5 it's dejavu all over again. :roll_eyes:

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Well, there certainly seems to be space in the SBC market for change. I never really used the GPIO on Pi's, too easy to smoke the Pi and I've never been that good with the electronics side of things. We will have to see what innovation does or does not come along with the new platform.

I don't need any more SBC's around right now, I have 3 unused Pi's as it is and I really need to refresh my ESP sensor platforms anyway so the only reason I might buy one of the new Pi's would be if they turn out to be good at image recognition from IP camera streams. Or good at other local AI tasks.

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I never use the physical GPIOs for IO... I'm anti-fry the PI as well. However, I do use the GPIO pins for comms UART, i2c (very heavily, multiple channels)... so those changes have been painful to absorb.

I use the PIs as mini PLCs with all of the IO attached to 3rd party boards or 3rd party intelligent sensors/devices communicating with the PI via i2c. Node Red has been a slick little logic and hmi tool. I'm not running nuclear reactors and everything I build has to have a well thought out fail safe condition.

So, for now, my projects stay on the 4B. oh well.