UDOO Looks To Combine Best of Raspberry Pi, Arduino 59
An anonymous reader writes "The Kickstarter campaign for the UDOO board is 7 days out from closing and they currently sit just under $4,000 short of their stretch goal of $500,000. The UDOO is an attempt to produce a single board which would combine the best parts of both Raspberry Pi and Arduino. UDOO will have a 1GHz ARM i.MX6 CPU in either a Dual Core or Quad Core flavor, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, HDMI and LVDS + Touch, and both an RJ45 port and an on board Wifi Module. Along with those specs, it will be compatible with Arduino DUE R3. The UDOO will utilize Micro SD as a boot device and run both Linux and Android. Currently on Kickstarter, the Dual Core starts at a pledge of $109."
Best of? (Score:5, Informative)
Udoo dual core: 110$
Arduino DUE: 50$
Raspberry Pi (model B): 40$
Arduino Uno: 30$
Arduino Pro mini: 10$
ATmega328P: 3.50$
What... like a pcDuino? (Score:5, Informative)
I've got a US$60 pcDuino [gadgetfactory.net], which is close to this. Sort of like a Raspberry Pi with Arduino(ish) I/O headers - they just lack the same spacing so an interposer is required. Runs Andriod, Linux and XBMC just fine...
The devil is in the detail. I wonder how good their Arduino work-a-like API library will be... with the ADCs have the same resolution? Will timing sensitive bit-banged I/O still work OK? Will PWM be the same?
at $109 they miss the point (Score:3, Informative)
it's more expensive than buying an arduino, an Pi, and a board to connect the two.
It's more powerful than the Pi, but there never was any shortage of boards that were more powerful than the Pi and also more expensive. Those boards used to be in the $200 range, so at $109 Udoo is a bit better, but it's nowhere close to the pricepoint of the Pi or BeagleBone Black
At $35 the Pi is something that you can give to kids without having to really think about it. It's also something that you can just install in a project and leave it.
At $109 the Uboo becomes something that you think much harder about giving to someone, and you don't just leave it in a project, you remove it from one project to build the next
David Lang
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