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This isn't your arduno. Having some code running an a regular arduino board doesn't mean that it'll be anything but a massive pain to get it running on this thi
by jakobson14 3y ago
This isn't your arduno. Having some code running an a regular arduino board doesn't mean that it'll be anything but a massive pain to get it running on this thing.
It's an i.mx8 SoC running a shitty linux distro put together by Arduino LLC. The additional MCU is an STM32. This thing is expensive as fuck while being slower than a pi and forcing you to go through the SoC to get any access to the MCU at all.
Arduino don't seem to know what they're doing anymore. They flirted with proprietary altera FPGAs that required quartus when icestorm for the ICE40 has already been a thing for a long time. Now they're trying to go after raspi industrial sales with a slower, shittier i.mx8 chip on a board that's also closed-source. Honestly, the only reason I think they were able to pull off using an i.mx8 is because of the large number of hobbyist designs with that chip they can lean on.