Intel Releases the Arduino 101 Source Code
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The Curie is a wonderful little SoC. The built in BLE, Gyro and Power management make it perfect for much more than a beefy UNO clone.
After seeing so much press from Lady Gaga to the X Games, I got a few 101s and started deving. Got to the point I wanted to get a few boards made with it. Turns out the only way a private individual can buy a Curie chip is attached to the 101 board.
Perplexed, I asked a representative a few days ago at a trade show why they were so scarce. It appears Intel, or rather the division responsible, isn't making the individual module available for purchase. That is unless, and I quote, "Your name is Oakley or similar".
Which makes me a little sad as their brand messaging calls for a "Makers Movement" but doesn't give us the products they have developed for it.
One thing I find particularly amusing is the 101's step counter tutorial featured on their Maker page[1]. A 7cm x 5cm pedometer with a battery management circuit that isn't mapped out on the board.
Either way, I hope they release this wonderful little package they have developed.
[1] https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Genuino101CurieIMUStepCou...
> Perplexed, I asked a representative a few days ago at a trade show why they were so scarce. It appears Intel, or rather the division responsible, isn't making the individual module available for purchase. That is unless, and I quote, "Your name is Oakley or similar".
This has been my biggest frustration with Intel. They will not sell their solder-on chips to distributors for some reason. I feel like they could make some major inroads into ARM-dominated markets if they made getting their products much easier. After all, how are you supposed to become an "Oakley" if you can;t get off the ground in the first place? Plus, if you get there on ARM chips, what is your motivation to suddenly switch to Intel once you are big enough for them to give a shit about you?
It seems to be impossible to find official power consumption figures for it anywhere either, and the documentation is lacking in general.
That isn't to say "they won't sell their solder on chips to distributors," because they absolutely do: Go to Mouser, select Intel, and look - Quarks and Atoms galore, even high end networking chips, all available for purchase.
One of the sad things I've learned first hand about the tech business is that even profitable small products are just not interesting to billion dollar companies. You need large enough revenues to make a splash as well, and these tiny MCUs selling at quantities of 10K here or 20K there just isn't enough to make Intel want to work for it.
Furthermore, if Intel wants to compete with these SoC vendors, they need to start acting like them - the Curie being a good example of that. They built a custom chip to do what their customers asked of them, and now they're selling it directly to those customers. Everything they're doing is fitting the strategy they've laid out.
This is one of the core thesis of the Innovator's Dilemma: the multi-billion dollar companies aren't interested in competing to serve your niche application.
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The modified BSD license is not bad, as lax permissive licenses go, though the Apache 2.0 license is preferable. However, it is risky to recommend use of “the BSD license”, even for special cases such as small programs, because confusion could easily occur and lead to use of the flawed original BSD license. To avoid this risk, you can suggest the X11 license instead. The X11 license and the modified BSD license are more or less equivalent.
However, the Apache 2.0 license is better for substantial programs, since it prevents patent treachery.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/Arduino101RefDesign.z...
Intel call their thing an RTOS; it's bullshit. They lack proof of hard realtime.
Um, Wow!
It was a closed-source blob masquerading as open source hardware (under the Arduino name).
Good thing the people at my hackerspace understood what I was saying, and bought none.