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What is ELEMENT14 - MCIMX6 SOLO - RIOT BOARD DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM ?

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Former Member over 11 years ago

This popped up recently here 23553532355353 apart from it seemingly being an iMX6 Solo something or another, there's no info available.  Lots of stock for something that would seem unlikely to be ordered unless you already know what it is. Google and other avenues are failing me. Can't find it on the Embest website either and given it shows e14 as the manufacturer it seems likely it'll be an embest design.

 

Anyone know what it is, or have pointers to more info ?

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  • bluescreen
    bluescreen over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +4
    www.youtube.com/watch
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to bluescreen +1
    Sagar, dangling the carrot like that withoug giving anything away is just evil
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to bluescreen +1
    Sagar Jethani wrote: It's going to go live here on element14 starting tomorrow morning, and I will come back here and post a link to it so you can find out more about it then. It's tomorrow here a…
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  • bluescreen
    0 bluescreen over 11 years ago

    Hi Guys.

     

    As promised: meet the RIoTBoard.

     

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    0 shabaz over 11 years ago in reply to bluescreen

    I've not done any Android development, but from the amazing, very detailed article (looking forward to part 2 by the way!!) that sounds like a very good use-case, to test apps for real during the development cycle before uploading it to a phone. It could speed up the development workflow extensively I imagine?

    The board looks well packed with features :-)

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

    The whole 'Revolutionizing the Internet of Things' tagline suggests much more than simply a phone app development system though, doesn't it ?  I suspect there are other boards that can do that just as well, for example the cubieboards come with android pre-installed on nand flash so what's the unique selling point here ?

     

    Available from a decent distributor (rather than ebay or alibaba) certainly has some appeal though image



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    0 shabaz over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Yes, I think this is just one use case. Maybe the tagline is implying that there is a different mix of price-performance-features with this board to open up new opportunities. Hard to know what the Mktg guys were thinking : ) but that would be my guess!

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

    They're clearly thinking bigger... The docs refer to www.riotboard.org which re-directs to the main page in the knode. Going to the trouble of registering a domain, having what appears to be a special riotboard box instead of the usual element14 branded ones, all suggests they're thinking much bigger. Perhaps trying to tap into the pent up demand created by the current BBB shortage ?  Either way, a much higher profile than the MarS board was given - although I suspect this is just a slight respin of the same design using a single core iMX6 to get the cost down further.

     

     

    Compare photos to see the similarities

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    RIoT board looks like it might be physically bigger too..

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to shabaz

    They're clearly thinking bigger... The docs refer to www.riotboard.org which re-directs to the main page in the knode. Going to the trouble of registering a domain, having what appears to be a special riotboard box instead of the usual element14 branded ones, all suggests they're thinking much bigger. Perhaps trying to tap into the pent up demand created by the current BBB shortage ?  Either way, a much higher profile than the MarS board was given - although I suspect this is just a slight respin of the same design using a single core iMX6 to get the cost down further.

     

     

    Compare photos to see the similarities

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    RIoT board looks like it might be physically bigger too..

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