Arduino Yun

[BurtyB]

Currently undecided about ordering the Arduino Yun - they seem to be missing the open-source side of things with the schematic (http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduino-Yun-schematic.pdf) as the AS9331/FLASH/RAM/etc are replaced by a block.

Anyone had a peek what's under the can?

[legacy]

you'd better go for dragino

it costs the less, it has schematic of the SoC, a plastic enclosure, and more features!
you could add an arduino to the serial port, and run the Yun's bridge from both sides

[dannyf]

All those Arduino stuff is over-priced in my view. Many OEMs offer low-priced development boards that would out-perform the arduino by a long margin, and allow you to actually learn about the mcus for real.

[con-f-use]

All those Arduino stuff is over-priced in my view. Many OEMs offer low-priced development boards that would out-perform the arduino by a long margin, and allow you to actually learn about the mcus for real.

But those devel-boards are much more complicated and have less pre-made libraries / off-the-shelf hardware available. Buying an Arduino is basically trading convenience for dollars. If it's worth it depends entirely on your purse, education, spare time and your project. They have their place. That being said, building an Arduino into a simple sensor+led switch is just burning money.

[bingo600]

A WR-703N would also do wifi i/f, and could interface via TTL-Serial to Arduino
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n

(Don't get a 702 .. too little ram/flash for openwrt).


There's also  - http://8devices.com/carambola-2

But you'd have to do some "own coding" ...

So if it's for "Arduino like ease" get the real one.

Edit: That Draguino looks cute , and it even seems like it has a rfm12B onboard (Jeenode -> wifi gateway)
I cant seem to get to the shop , so price


/Bingo

[mtdoc]

All those Arduino stuff is over-priced in my view. Many OEMs offer low-priced development boards that would out-perform the arduino by a long margin, and allow you to actually learn about the mcus for real.

But those devel-boards are much more complicated and have less libraries and off-the-shelf hardware available. Buying an Arduino is basically trading convenience for dollars. If it worth it depends entirely on your purse, education, deadline and your project. They have their place. That being said, building an arduino into a simple sensor+led switcher is just stupid.

This is exactly right. Some of us have full time jobs which means for better or worse having more spare cash than spare time

I'm up for learning what's needed to use other platforms and have recently acquired a couple of low cost devleopment boards but it will be slow process, given my time constraints, before I can use them effectively.

In the meantime, the 'duino world offers a quicker -albeit slighlty more expensive solution for my current project.

The Yun does look interesting. I suspect the price will come down and it will not be long before the Chinese clones are available on ebay.....

[BurtyB]

The Carambola 2 does look quite interesting at that price to use as an add-on even though it's not open source hardware at least they don't imply it is .

[Hamster]

I will try out a YUN, but the dragino looks pretty cool, will have to look at it.

[Greyersting]

I'm probably going to get it when it is cheaper on eBay because of the built in WiFi and Ethernet.

[jakehiltz]

I still do not understand why people buy Arduino boards , other than the fact that they want to support the company. Why would you buy something that is so much more limited than a raspberry pi for nearly the same price.

I am not trying to come off as a D*** but I am actually just curious why people buy these boards so much. I own a few Arduinos and I like them a lot , but it comes to a point when you just buy the IC or get a better board.

[baldengineer]

I still do not understand why people buy Arduino boards , other than the fact that they want to support the company. Why would you buy something that is so much more limited than a raspberry pi for nearly the same price.

If you aren't taking Yún specific, then it is simple.  The Pi and a Raspberry for intended for very different applications.

The Pi is a Single Board Computer.  Most Arduino boards are simple embedded microcontrollers.

One is a truck, the other is a shovel.

[BurtyB]

I still do not understand why people buy Arduino boards

I've mostly been using them to get projects going and then moving to a custom board (Ignoring my solar monitor with the ArduinoBT+stripboard screwed to the side of the shed for the past 5 years - oops).

[idiotsecant]

I still do not understand why people buy Arduino boards , other than the fact that they want to support the company. Why would you buy something that is so much more limited than a raspberry pi for nearly the same price.

I am not trying to come off as a D*** but I am actually just curious why people buy these boards so much. I own a few Arduinos and I like them a lot , but it comes to a point when you just buy the IC or get a better board.

Simplicity! If all you want to do is turn some relays on and off for Christmas lights or some equally simple thing its literally 15 seconds and you're done.

[Hamster]

i am building a door access controller, the arduino will handle the door lock motor, and hid/nfc reader, it will talk to a beagle bone handling the apache web services and mysql database.

they are two different things.