On 1/6/13 5:43 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
There is not "hottest ticket". It depends on what you need. The TI
"launch pad" is less then $5 shipped which makes it really popular.
Somehow I suspect the MSP430 launchpad won't run windows/Linux and
Matlab, eh?
If
you need loots of compute power and have an $85 budget and can stand a 9"
square PCB buy an Intel Atom motherboard it comes with dual core Atom CPU
soldered down and will run a full-on Linux server.
Sure.. the budget is even higher.. when you're paying the developers
$100/hr burdened rate, I'm more than happy to spend a few hundred bucks
more to make the development/operating environment something easy and
familiar.
This isn't a "gonna make 10,000 copies and need to squeeze out every
penny".. it's a "stick a PC inside so software development is like doing
it on your desktop machine"
If you just need a
small computer with a nice display
No display.. as mentioned, sole interface is via network.
any Android phone works and of course
Androids all run Linux. Arduino is nice because the software is set up for
some one who know ZERO about computers and programming but is still quite
powerful and yo can run the programmed Arduino off a 9V battery
Dude.. Arduinos don't run Matlab or Labview.. Arduinos (of which I am a
big fan) are an "embedded microcontroller", not an "embedded PC"..
I want something that people who are used to working and developing
software on a desktop can use for a embedded box.
Of those for your use, just buy the miniITX/miniATX with a USB or SD "disk
drive". Cost is under $100 and they burn about 20W of power. The
little launch
pad chip will goes for months (years?) on AA battery power.
I think as a general rule ofthumb the bigger the computer the less cost for
make the software.
Precisely why I want a "PC" not a microcontroller. This is a situation
where the developer cost is hugely bigger than the processor cost.
But which miniATX? There's tons out there.. and that's the source of
the question..
Phones are out of the question..
I'm not building an NTP server, but something else of comparable
complexity, hence the question. Folks who have built NTP servers
(recently) using off the shelf stuff will have gone through the exercise
of finding boards that work, etc.
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