SunnyD
Belgian Waffler
Thanks Perk... I've been eyeing up the Intel-based IoT platforms for a while. Given Microsoft is on board with it, and the price is right (re: Free), this is right up my alley of expertise now.
I noticed hotmail doesn't work... gmail does, in that, you get a response within 10 mins.
Nothing for hotmail, not in junk, not anyplace.
Err... hotmail works fine.
not mine (pretty old hotmail acct too), i just used gmail - got a response in 10 minutes. hopefully they don't trash my info because i entered in more than one email.
Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when we have more to share.
Thank you,
The Microsoft IoT Team
This is what I got after I gave them address etc. I suppose they are limiting supply.
I didn't even get that. Nada for me. Life goes on.
These boards are likely cheaper than the cheapest human time to decide who should get one, so demand most likely exceeded supply and more will show up.
Shipping and handling costs may also exceed board costs, so shipping via slowest and cheapest could mean a few weeks before they start showing up.
So, they're shipping them insured overnight? The boards retail for $70-80, Mouser has them for $66, and no qty price breaks that I can find. Demand is definitely exceeding supply, though. Cheap enough for promotion, and likely good embedded Windows devices (or will be, if not yet), but not quite that cheap, at least not yet.These boards are likely cheaper than the cheapest human time to decide who should get one, so demand most likely exceeded supply and more will show up.
Shipping and handling costs may also exceed board costs, so shipping via slowest and cheapest could mean a few weeks before they start showing up.
So, they're shipping them insured overnight? The boards retail for $70-80, Mouser has them for $66, and no qty price breaks that I can find. Demand is definitely exceeding supply, though. Cheap enough for promotion, and likely good embedded Windows devices (or will be, if not yet), but not quite that cheap, at least not yet.
The Arduino Pro Mini, which I may end up getting for power control (OT: the BBB can be fried with voltage on its GPIO pins during power loss, but does not have integrated any means for safe power cycling with peripherals attached), uses an Atmel uC with 1K RAM, 16K storage, and runs at up to 16MHz. Galileo has 256MB RAM, 8MB storage, PCIe, Ethernet, a full USB 2.0 host controller, uSD slot, and runs a 400MHz Penitum-compatible CPU. IO capability is similar between them. Also, the Pro Mini lacks a convenient USB programming interface (the Nano, for $3.50-4, has one).OTOH as was pointed out a pro mini sells for about $3 shipped on ebay, obvious I have no clue regards the details of either board, but you really never can tell.