I have been playing with my Edison for a bit now (couple weeks). It's rubbish. The tools for truly professional application aren't there, and the lack of documentation and object base makes it useless for "hobby types".
It's only documentation is conflicting, in error and useless.
This device was ill conceived, pushed to market too quickly and has no real application, other than novelty.
Who cares if can run native x86, there is no IDE yet and no documentation, or object base to build from.
Why should I have to re-invent the wheel just to use this thing?
Also I measured it's draw at 280mA (1 ish watt @ nominal cell voltage) while on the network. Hardly usable for an embed device, running from a single 18650 Li cell, and that isn't including supporting hardware or GPIO connected hardware.
USELESS JUNK!!!
ARM cortex A8 has broader saturation, better availability, more dev tools and far better power efficiency.
Also why no colck REF input of V ref input? So much for my idea about rubidium GPS sync and precision timing....
Shame on the Intel corporate team that forced the engineers to push out such a steaming pile of shit....
P.S. why in the blue hell would you build it with an internal 1.8v bus and then a 1v "precision internal V ref" and then no internal A/D.....so much UN-necessary bullshit is going to have to be waded through to properly reference this to an external 10-bit a/d.....or 12-bit or my dream of 24 bits......there goes my precision PSU/PoL/Metrics project dreams....