Continuing the discussion from Electronics: Wheel Works:
I knew they were discontinuing the Edison, but had hoped it wouldn’t affect the 101. Ohh well, I need to start playing with the teensy anyway.
Another big player thinking they could just elbow into a market without understanding it.
I think the cost point is what killed it plus much more complex to program - primerily thinking of Edison level boards. They good and powerful compared to Arduino, but considering how cheap a Nano is to do really simple tasks, it just wasn’t the right market.
And these boards are pin compatible with the Nano, cost $10 from mouser, and have an 80MHz ARM Cortex M4, 256kB of flash, 64kB of RAM, and a host of other advantages over the Nano. So yes, the Arduino 101 was underpowered. But the built in neural network neurons was interesting.
Interesting how Intel is discontinuing the Arduino 101 w/ its small 128 node neural net and announcing the Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS).
From another Talk thread
http://anandtech.com/show/11649/intel-launches-movidius-neural-compute-stick
Intel owns the tech for the Movidius, while they had to license the tech for the 101
Good point
Any luck in “teaching” your 101?
Haven’t touched it since that Friday at the space.