Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Intel Edison Unboxing”.
Hey everybody: this is matt richardson contributing editor for make magazine. I just got back from the intel developer forum, where there was a lot of talk of edison, and this is my first time getting my hands on the on the board. It is an intel based system on chip or system on module that is kind of a companion for the intel galileo, and maybe this one is probably a little bit more geared towards people who are going to integrate intel architecture into their products. So i’m going to unbox it here for you, so you can see what the what the experience is like um and what you get when you order an intel. Uh edison. So that’s that’s what it looks like it’s about the size of a postage stamp. Maybe a little bit bigger um. The the chip on here is an intel atom chip. It has 500 megahertz uh and there’s also a quark processor that runs at 100 megahertz. That’S the microcontroller has 40 gpios one gigabyte of ram and four gigabytes emmc.
That’S the onboard flash memory it has on-board wi-fi and bluetooth low energy. So it’s pretty impressive. It’S a lot for one little tiny chip i’ll, take it out of the plastic here.
So there’s an antenna. It looks like a what i’m guessing is a ceramic antenna, but also an antenna connector screw bosses. It says what will you make intel the intel inside logo intel edison logo back, there’s sort of the certification things and there’s the connector and that’s how it’s going to connect to any kind of breakout board that you find to use intel edison and it’s pretty much Useless without some kind of board to connect it to this is really just the brains at the core of a project or at the core of some kind of board, and there are many possibilities, different kinds of boards that you could use and you one of them Is included in this package here this package has screws.
This package has a an arduino breakout board, arduino compatible breakout for this, or some people might call it a sled. As you can see here, arduino pins, this is the arduino pin out it doesn’t have all the pwms that an arduino does, i think, off the top. My head of arduino has six pwm pins and this particular board has, i think, only four pwms. So the edison will pop onto there and the development uh for, for this is just a lot like doing a galileo development, um and so there’s the linux side and then there’s sort of the arduino side of it and they kind of work together so that you Can do web-based things wi-fi and wi-fi enabled projects you can run a web server on this and so on, and so the idea is that perhaps you could prototype with this board with these breakouts and then eventually, when you want to make your product or you want To make your project even better or smaller, you can snap this into a board that you design yourself. You just got to have to worry about how you’re going to get that connected as a means of comparison.
Here i have a raspberry pi compute module, which is, i would say, the raspberry pi version of the edison and there they are lined up the edison’s about half the size of the raspberry pi compute module even less than half, i think in terms of area. So that’s what that’s, how you compare them and keep an eye out on makezine.com for more details coming up about intel, edison uh. Also, if you’re gon na be at maker faire new york, uh there’ll be galileo and intel edison projects there and intel edison materials. So keep an eye out for more coverage on this.
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