On 13 February 2015 at 11:39, Gabriele Svelto <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that making web technologies available in the usually deeply > embedded IoT platforms would definitely go hand in hand with Mozilla's > mission. While FxOS might currently be lacking some functionality (GPIO, > more sensor access, etc...) to be viable in that market I don't think it > would be hard to add it. Designing the APIs so that they would be > generally viable on the web might be more challenging though. > I agree, it's perfectly feasible to add APIs for something this low level, but less clear whether they would be web APIs which could be standardised. I'd rather work on making FxOS run on existing ones rather than > considering to design a new one. There's been work on making FxOS work > on the Raspberry Pi [1] but we're not completely there yet. Completing > the port would give us access to a cheap, easily available board and I > think it would also be easier than starting from scratch. > I am also really keen to get FxOS working better on the Raspberry Pi for a couple of projects I'm working on (one desktop related, one robotics related). There are obviously limitations to what you can do with Firefox OS (based on Linux) and the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi though, for a lot of applications like driving motors or listening to sensors which output using PWM you're going to need a microcontroller which can do realtime things. This is why I have the Gertboard which extends the Pi and includes an AVR microcontroller (which is basically Arduino). I would definitely agree that it would be better to support existing projects like Raspberry Pi and Arduino than to create a new one, although like Jan says you could create a board which combines the features of Pi+expansion or Arduino+expansion for less money, which might be valuable.
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