On Nov 14, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Adam Feuer <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a lot more like an Arduino Due or Leaf Labs Maple - The Raspberry Pi > runs Linux, which is not a real-time operating system.
Yes, the micropython board sounds like an arduino that runs python + inline asm . I doubt though that the implementation could handle my favorite C extensions (numpy), or load C modules in general, so you are stuck doing tricky things in inline asm. Anyway, I'm in for one :) On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <[email protected]> wrote > > At first glance, this looks a lot like a raspberry pi --- how is it different? Beaglebone is definitely in the rasppi league. The processor is a little more capable and there is scads more io. By default it runs angstrom linux with plenty of packages through opkg. [Make Zine Comparison](http://goo.gl/S61unb) Originally I thought it was an astroturf project from TI to push their processors, but it turns out it's really nice to work with. They don't recommend shipping it for products, but it sounds like there is help available to migrate to a production embedded board. I'm not that far yet, but I'm hoping It's an easy way for me to ship embedded stuff in python. -Dan > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > <[email protected]> wrote: > At first glance, this looks a lot like a raspberry pi --- how is it different? > > The Arduino Due or Maple boards don't run an operating system - your program > is the operating system, in effect. So that means it's a lot simpler to write > programs for boards like this. You can also write programs that are a lot > closer to the hardware - that manipulate the system-on-a-chip hardware > directly, something that's basically impossible to under Linux, if you need > things to happen on a very precise time schedule, like in microseconds or > even milliseconds. Linux doesn't (yet) provide that level of precision or > simplicity. > > -adam > -- > Adam Feuer <[email protected]>
