[TriEmbed] Learning Curve

[pete@soper.us]

There are a great many ecosystems. :-)It's vast. One way to make it merely huge is to focus on open source hardware and software. -Pete

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From: "Burr Sutter" <burrsutter at gmail.com>
To: "Christopher Svec" <christophersvec at yahoo.com>
Cc: "triembed at triembed.org" <triembed at triembed.org>
Subject: [TriEmbed] Learning Curve
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 9:20 AM

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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