A new smaller Pi microcontroller

wallarug over 11 years ago

Link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vocore-a-coin-sized-linux-computer-with-wifi#activity

I found this project today and thought it would interest the community.

It is much smaller than the RPi and it includes WiFi.

Let me know what you guys think about it.

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tabarus12 over 11 years ago

These platforms are awesome for house automation, small and powerful.

Ill have to get one of those for my home project.
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rew over 11 years ago in reply to tabarus12

But remember... They are not as "comfortable" as a raspberry pi: On a raspberry pi, you can run most normal Linux commands and distributions because you have a "normal" amount of memory. The VOCORE has only 32Mb, which means that things are a bit cramped. But as an embedded Linux machine, doing wifi stuff and maybe a few GPIO things, it is a great platform.
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Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to rew

Agreed these aren't "'PIs" at all just Linux microcontrollers. Obviously if he didn't call them Pi's no one would be interested in the blog post. Pi this and Pi the other
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johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to rew

Roger Wolff wrote:

But remember... They are not as "comfortable" as a raspberry pi: On a raspberry pi, you can run most normal Linux commands and distributions because you have a "normal" amount of memory. The VOCORE has only 32Mb, which means that things are a bit cramped. But as an embedded Linux machine, doing wifi stuff and maybe a few GPIO things, it is a great platform.

I first used Unix on a PDP-11/45 with 256KB of memory (yes, K as in Kibble). It was a time-sharing system, with multiple terminals. It really only dragged if several people tried to compile at the same time, or worse, run the Ingres database.

So, yeah, you can do quite a bit with 32 MB, especially with no GUI.
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Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

So basically you are saying that we can run a Nuclear Power station on one of these modules as long as we use an old Wyse Terminal and avoid the Zork Text adventure
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johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to Problemchild

John Alexander wrote:

So basically you are saying that we can run a Nuclear Power station on one of these modules as long as we use an old Wyse Terminal and avoid the Zork Text adventure

Très amusant. Should I add that the PDP-11/45 cycle time was a lot slower than 360 MHz?
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Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

My experience starts with the VAXen really do you have any PDPs hanging around ... I do have a PDP8 clone kit but that's not the same
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rew over 11 years ago in reply to Problemchild

I still have my PDT11.... My first Unix was a PDP11/60. Microprogrammable! I think it too had 256k RAm.
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rew over 11 years ago in reply to Problemchild

I still have my PDT11.... My first Unix was a PDP11/60. Microprogrammable! I think it too had 256k RAm.
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