<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3602">Yes! I totally agree about the growth of our once-very-niche industry.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3603"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3604" dir="ltr">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.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3605" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3606" dir="ltr">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.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_4242" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3820" dir="ltr">But is that what you're after?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_4029" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_4240" dir="ltr">(I'm a fan of frequently backing up and asking the big picture "why?" questions.)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_4243" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_4244" dir="ltr">-svec<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_3608"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:05 AM, Burr Sutter <burrsutter@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0020228131"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have followed this path so far:</div><div>1) Arduino</div><div>2) Raspberry Pi</div><div>3) Spark Core</div><div>4) Intel Edison (just using it as a Linux box so far)</div><div>5) TI SensorTag</div><div>and played a bit with the NXP LPC1768 running mbed (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mbed.org/">http://mbed.org/</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org" href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org" target="_blank">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br>TriEmbed web site: <a href="http://triembed.org/" target="_blank">http://TriEmbed.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>