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I'm not very surprised with this. Quite a long time ago I came across their Galileo boards but for the price point it just did not seem worth it - 2 - 4 times t
by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I'm not very surprised with this. Quite a long time ago I came across their Galileo boards but for the price point it just did not seem worth it - 2 - 4 times the price of a RasperryPi or Uno.
The appeal/benefit of having x86 was just never there for me or the agency I was at. I could see how it might be useful if you are writing a lot of assembly and low level at that but this seemed too much of a niche with the way they were marketed. If it had networking and I could use it with Python I was happy.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoAlso, with Arduino you can easily and cheaply buy more ATmega328 DIPs and put them on protoboard for an embedded project. I built a little server rack temperature monitor (which collects data from a couple sensors and provides a simple REST service over ethernet) that way, all you need to run the ATmega328 by itself is about 50 cents worth of components.
- beagle3 9y agox86 has two things going for it: Microsoft Windows x86/AMD64 compatibility, and highest possible performance (not performance per watt; absolute attainable performance). If you don't need either, it is expensive in cost, power or both. And in the IoT/Maker world, one rarely needs computing power on the device itself (and Galileo doesn't really provide a lot of computing power), or wants to pay for a windows license per device (and deal with activation, etc)