[TriEmbed] Learning Curve

Burr Sutter burrsutter at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 08:20:00 CDT 2015


I think that is a perfectly fair question...my focus is on learning at this
time, trying to understand the overall ecosystem.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Christopher Svec <christophersvec at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Yes! I totally agree about the growth of our once-very-niche industry.
>
> Another question to consider is "what are you trying to do or accomplish
> as an end-goal?", in addition to the "where to invest time & energy to
> learn" question.
>
> You can spend the rest of your life testing & learning each new platform
> or dev board or widget that comes out - and there's nothing wrong with that
> at all! Especially if pure learning is your goal.
>
> But is that what you're after?
>
> (I'm a fan of frequently backing up and asking the big picture "why?"
> questions.)
>
> -svec
>
>
>
>   On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:05 AM, Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> The world of embedded microcontrollers has seen some dramatic growth (from
> my perspective) and it is tough to figure out where to invest my learning
> time & energy.
>
> I have followed this path so far:
> 1) Arduino
> 2) Raspberry Pi
> 3) Spark Core
> 4) Intel Edison (just using it as a Linux box so far)
> 5) TI SensorTag
> and played a bit with the NXP LPC1768 running mbed (http://mbed.org/)
>
> Mostly I have been simply playing with the various "developer kits" where
> my mission is on detection and connection - trying to understand what can
> be sensed and how to get the data back to the cloud.
>
> How do you all feel about mbed? Is that worthy of expending
> dozens/hundreds of hours of learning time? And if so, which of the various
> ARM/mbed-based hardware vendors are interesting to you?
>
>
>
>
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