Post : Two interesing boards coming down the pipe
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/06/29/two-interesing-boards-coming-down-the-pipe/
Posted : June 29, 2012 at 7:01 am
Author : Brian Benchoff
Tags : hardware, kinetis, MIMO DREAMPLUG
Categories : hardware

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Hey, it's a hardware twofer! Here's two platforms coming down the pipe:

First up is the Mimo Dreamplug (http://www.mimomonitors.com/products/mimo-dreamplug) , the latest in a continued expansion of choices for very tiny, single-board Linux computers. The Dreamplug should be extremely capable of just about any task you can throw at it. With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU, eSATA, fiber optic/TOSLINK, WiFi, Bluetooth, two Gigabit Ethernet connections, and 512 GB of RAM, we're thinking this could be used for just about anything. It's a little pricy at $250, but that's what you pay for all those features. No idea when it will be available, though.

Next up is the Kinetis KL25Z Freedom Board (http://www.element14.com/community/community/knode/dev_platforms_kits/element14_dev_kits/kinetis_kl2_freedom_board?view=overview) , an Arduino-compatable, Cortex-M0+ based dev board being made available for pre-order. The specs on this machine seem pretty good - with a 48MHz ARM chip, on-board accelerometer, a capacitive touch 'slider' built into the PCB, and OpenSDA for a USB debug interface, you should be able to make a few cool projects with this board. As a neat bonus, it costs $13, and Freescale is giving away a version of their Codewarrior development environment (limited to 128kB, but that's all the Flash the Kinetis has). Hopefully, it'll be a much more open development platform (http://hackaday.com/2012/06/19/stm32-demo-code-carries-extra-hidden-copyrights/) than what our own [Mike Szczys] has been able to wrangle from the STM32 board (http://hackaday.com/2012/06/17/template-for-building-stm32f0-discovery-project-in-gcc/) that has been floating around. The Kinetis should be available this fall.

Thanks [Impulse405] and [Hussam] for sending these tips in.

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