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[FourT2]

Listened to the .NET Rocks podcast a few days ago. Here is the link to that episode: http://www.dotnetroc...px?showNum=1019

 

I want that Galileo board! Submitted my application by have not been selected. Oh well, I will keep playing with my Netduino / Arduino for now. 

[Juzzer]

@FourT2

 

As it stands i would stick with your Netduino / Arduino...

 

I have been really disappointed with the Galileo experience so far....

[Spiked]

I want that Galileo board! Submitted my application by have not been selected. Oh well, I will keep playing with my Netduino / Arduino for now. 

 

Suggested course of action. Come up with a specific cool idea to use it for.  

 

Join the IRC channel and talk about it, You might get noticed <wink wink>

[Dr Who]

Suggested course of action. Come up with a specific cool idea to use it for.  

 

Join the IRC channel and talk about it, You might get noticed <wink wink>

 

Hello!

However they did respond to me with a complaint concerning their site and wanting to confirm my information.

 

That was several weeks ago.

 

Problem is that I'm not a fan of IRC, I never figured out how to make it work for me......

[swamplander]

Noob here... what channel / server is the IRC chat?

[Spiked]

https://webchat.free...indowsondevices

[beastyboy]

Registered a very long time ago when the site just was available(same day)

 

Have not seen any response from it until today.

 

Cheers 

Olaf

[Nevyn]

If you have a Galileo Rev 1 board you can get this running Windows now:

 

http://ms-iot.github...ghtAGalileo.htm

 

Takes about 45 minutes to get going if you have VS2013 installed.

 

Regards,

Mark

[CW2]

Running a simple .NET console app on the Intel Galileo with Windows by Pete Brown

[FourT2]

Very cool. Does anyone know the model number(s) of gen 1 Galileo? For example, it appears that this one here is gen 1, but I am not sure if it has firmware 1.0.2 specifically: http://www.amazon.co...s=intel galileo  

[Spiked]

The amazon one is supposedly gen 1. I read somewhere that WIndows required gen 2 BUT I was told that was not the case, and that is confirmed here; 

 

http://ms-iot.github...ghtAGalileo.htm

 

So that Amazon buy should be good.

[FourT2]

Right on, will buy one this week! 

[Nevyn]

Very cool. Does anyone know the model number(s) of gen 1 Galileo? For example, it appears that this one here is gen 1, but I am not sure if it has firmware 1.0.2 specifically: http://www.amazon.co...s=intel galileo

 

I had to upgrade the firmware on mine.  Took about 5-10 minutes to do that and was simple enough.  The links posted have the instructions.

 

Interestingly, in "Windows" mode it's not really too fast.  Fastest signal I have been able to get out of the beast so far is ~60Hz with a 33% duty cycle when just toggling GPIO pins.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Nevyn]

Running a simple .NET console app on the Intel Galileo with Windows by Pete Brown

 

Noticed that yesterday.  Interesting to see how much .NET they actually get working and what the performance impact will be.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Nevyn]

Had a play comparing the Galileo performance with the Netduino Plus 2.  Initial naive impressions aren't favourable for the Galileo.  More investigation may be required.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Juzzer]

With a 1ms sleep toggling pin 13 you will get anywhere from 4ms to 14ms on the scope.
This appears to be due to the fact the io is being driven thru a I2C chip.
There are 3 pins driven directly via the quack that result at around 3ms
The same test with netmf running 4.3 on a stm32f427 results at a constant 1.05ms

Like I said...at the moment not very flash...

[Nevyn]

Like I said...at the moment not very flash...

Yes, at the moment the Netduino Plus 2 appears to be a better option.

Regards,
Mark

[Spiked]

So that would be a problem for Windows and Linux then? As in a hardware limitation?

 

I'm really starting to get the impression none of these devices are going to satisfy the needs from a hardware standpoint. If you want to play in the IoT space you better have a SMC soldering pencil ready (metaphorically).

 

After a week of trying to make it work, I'm going to the FPGA board now.

[Juzzer]

Linux is no different...

For me IoT = STM32F4xx + NETMF

Does everything I need...

[Tombo]

It seems like the Galileo Gen 2 addresses some of the problems with speed on the I/O pins.   I am going to pick one up and see what it can do.  Microsoft is also working on a windows OS update for it.   Based on your observations on how slow Gen 1 is,  I will skip playing around with it.