!!! The world's most popular open source hardware platform! I don't know, it's out!

Some of the world's most popular open source hardware platforms! I don't know, it's out!

With the promotion and popularization of the internet of things, there will be 20 billion smart devices in the world in five years, and now with the rise of the concept of creators, open source hardware is increasingly hot, let us look at what is now the mainstream open source hardware platform, these platforms are what chip it, all-chi, Samsung, Rui-core micro, Freescale? Let's count it down!

1. Tree Plum Pie (Raspberry Pi)-arm1176jzf-s core

The Raspberry Pi was developed by the charitable organization registered in the United Kingdom, "Raspberry," Eben upton/Es Upton is the project leader. March 2012, the University of Cambridge Eben Apton (Eben Epton) officially released the world's smallest desktop, also known as the card-type computer, the form of only credit card size, but with all the basic functions of the computer, this is the Raspberry Pi computer board, Chinese name "Raspberry Pi"! It is an arm-based micro-computer motherboard, the SD card is a memory hard disk, the card board is surrounded by two USB ports and a network port, can connect keyboard, mouse and network cable, with video analog signal of the TV output interface and HDMI HD video Output interface, All of the above components are integrated on a motherboard that is only slightly larger than the credit card, with all the basic functions of the PC just by turning on the TV and keyboard, you can perform many functions such as spreadsheets, word processing, playing games, and playing high-definition video. Raspberry Pi b only provides computer boards, no memory, power, keyboard, chassis or wiring.

The combination of Raspberry Pi and Code Club makes it easier for kids to learn to program

Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi) Since its inception, has been a number of computer enthusiasts and creators of the pursuit, once was a "pie" difficult to seek, and its powerful features are also favored by the vast number of DIY enthusiasts. However, this credit card-sized card-based computer was designed to educate students on computer programming to improve school computer science and related disciplines, and make computers interesting.

At present, Raspberry Pi Sales is staggering, has sold 7 million pieces, the influence is huge. Recently, Raspberry Pi Foundation CEO Philip Colligan announced that Raspberry Pi will be merged in the Code club, allowing more children to learn computer programming knowledge.

The Code club was founded in June 2013, and the club has been intellectually inspired by the 9-11-year-old's interest in technology. At present, the United Kingdom has established 3,250 Code Club, more than 40,000 children, in other countries and regions, there are 1000 code clubs in children's computer education.

Earlier, Raspberry Pi had worked together with Code club, and because two organizations had similar areas of commitment and shared goals, especially in the field of computer education, the two had decided to merge after thinking, merging skills and goals, accelerating code The club's global growth has allowed more people to accept the basic learning of computer programming convenience.

In addition, Google, Samsung and other technology giants are Raspberry Pi and code club supporters, they also hope that the two efforts to cultivate more internet professionals, for the development of science and technology to make more contributions.

The use of microcomputer to develop student programming education has been common,Arduino, Galileo and other micro-computer Development Board manufacturers are also trying to devote to the field of computer programming education, this October, BBC Micro: The production company of Bit mini computer equipment distributed 1 million BBC Micro:bit devices to British six-year-old children, and provided open source materials, all of which encouraged and supported children and young people to learn programming techniques.

In the internet age, the rapid development of science and technology, programming seems to be no longer the skills of professionals to use, but become a basic discipline that everyone needs to understand, Raspberry Pi and Code Club is to promote more people to learn and understand it. The two sides said that in the future, free programming resources will be available online, and the Code club will continue to grow, creating more educational clubs around the world to benefit more people.

2.armcore-Full Chi A20

Armcore is an open-source hardware customized by the Mattel company for enterprise-class DIY, and its standards are based on industry-level development. In order to facilitate enterprise development products, Armcore the CPU, DDR, FLASH, PMU and other core modules packaged on a core board, and the Android system integrated into the system, basically the mainstream standard equipment on the market to drive all have everything, in order to save the time period and cost of enterprise development projects. What's more tempting is that these are open source! But the platform is not enough to support the individual creators of the very low, mainly for enterprise users.

3.arduino-atmega328

Arduino is a convenient, flexible, and easy-to-start open source electronic prototyping platform that includes hardware (various models of Arduino boards) and software (Arduino IDE). It is suitable for enthusiasts, artists, designers and friends who are interested in "interacting".

4.beaglebone-am3359

Beaglebone is an open source software and embedded hardware design non-profit company. Beaglebone provides a great platform for open source hardware and software exchange. Beaglebone can be said to be a hardware platform driven entirely by open source enthusiasts.

5.cubieboard-Full Chi A10

Cubieboard is an open source MINIPC developed by a technical team in Zhuhai, China, Cubieteam, some similar to the Raspberry Pi developed by the British. Suitable for personal creators, in this platform development products do not need to read English materials is the biggest advantage, haha! We have always believed that Chinese brands always have a day out of the country, although cubieboard in the domestic fame, but by virtue of its excellent quality has won a part of the market abroad.

6.armpc-Full Chi A20

ARMPC is an open-source development platform for individual DIY players based on A20 development, and its rich extensibility is the biggest feature, because it contains almost all the interfaces of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, so it supports a lot more DIY modules than the previous two. ARMPC and Beaglebone are open source hardware driven by the open source community. Its shortage is only open software source code, and not open hardware schematic, but this does not affect the creators of its favor.

7.udoo-Freescale i.mx6 ARM

Like the Raspberry Pi, Udoo is an arm-architected Linux board, and a second ARM processor is installed on the board to emulate the Arduino Due.

The Udoo has a dual-core and four-core two-version arm cortex-a9 CPU with an arm sam3x processor like the Arduino due. The Udoo also includes OpenGL accelerators, 54 digital I/O and analog inputs (with Arduino R3 compatible pinout), Ethernet, built-in WiFi, HDMI, USB, SATA, and analog sound signals.

7, sparkcore-single-chip microcomputer

Sparkcore is a platform with a companion cloud service that is compatible with Arduino and has a built-in WiFi capability. Like Yún, Sparkcore can also be connected via WiFi and programmed to develop. In addition to the wireless local area network, Sparkcore can also update its progress by accessing cloud services from anywhere.

8.digispark-Single Chip microcomputer

Digispark is also a ATTiny85 architecture-based Development Board and is small enough to support the Arduino IDE 1.0+ (osx/win/linux).

Although Digispark has only 6 I/O Pins, it is possible to extend it with a variety of expansion tools. And the Digispark is priced at only $12, and it's a good choice whether it's learning to get started or feature development.

10, pcduino-full Chi A10

Pcduino can run a full PC operating system, such as ICS for Ubuntu and Android, and is easy to use toolchain and is compatible with the Arduino open ecosystem, including Arduino Shield and open source projects. It is important to note that it is compatible with most Arduino expansion boards, and all Arduino extension pins are accessible through the API, including UART, ADC, PWM, GPIO, and I²c.

Sinovoip and Foxconn to build a third-generation banana PIE Development Board: Banana PI bpi-m3

Banana PI M1 is an open source hardware platform for Elastos.org Open source OS promotion, Bananapi M1 is a more powerful dual-core Android4.2 product than Raspberry Pi. Bananapi supports Android system, Debian Linux system, Ubuntulinux system, Raspberry Pi system and Cubieboard System. Can be used as media Player, intelligent routing switch, Repeater, industrial computer, STB, network player, Development Board, personal entertainment learning programming software.

Elastos will coordinate multiple CPUs to form a home cloud ecosystem based on "software/hardware Services".
The Banana Pi looks like a Raspberry Pi, but its performance is much more enhanced than the Raspberry Pi, and it can run the Raspberry Pi image.

Banana PI Hardware: Hardware based on ARM architecture, 1Ghz ARM7 dual-core processor, 1GB DDR3 memory, Gigabit Ethernet port, SATA Socket, smooth running Android4.2.2. Banana Pi M1 volume such as credit card size, easy to run "Thor Hammer Three: Arena" Such a game, support 1080P HD video output, Gpio compatible raspberry PI and directly run its ROM Image.

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Fireblock is a cross-platform graphical programming based on the scratch, which only needs to be built as a building block. Without learning the programming language, Firefly added various plugins for the control hardware to easily control the Fireduino. At the same time using Fireduino's 2.4Ghz WiFi module, the programming process completely off the data line, now, just need to build up your ideas, programming to create fun things!

* Go Day Open: New generation of Wit Cloud 3.0 and Gokit3 officially released

September 19, Smart cloud intelligent hardware self-help development and cloud service platform held in Beijing Go Day 2015 launch, the official release of a new generation of Smart Cloud 3.0, a comprehensive upgrade of product access services and management capabilities, while the next generation of IoT open source Hardware Development Board GOKIT3 also released, which can directly support the voice, Bluetooth, 2G/3G/4G, and higher performance processors, the overall functionality is more powerful, more user-friendly, more connectivity, which will be at the technical level to further promote the development of the entire Internet of things.

Wit Cloud 3.0 is based on the Wit Cloud 2.0 launched on the current domestic first intelligent hardware one-stop development and equipment operating platform (Paas+saas), is the wisdom of the cloud over the past year the accumulation of technology. Wit Cloud 3.0 in the original Wit Cloud 2.0 enhanced Nine features: Directed remote upgrade, rule engine, message push, device automation, device linkage, Enterprise API, user-defined statistical analysis, 2g/3g product support and a variety of data output interface, so that intelligent hardware devices self-access after the function of more perfect, More manageable.

At the same time, wit Cloud 3.0 comprehensively improve the service capability after the product access, such as: Production support, inventory management, dealer management, after-sales service management, user management and other services. Let the enterprise truly realize the upgrade from selling products to operating products.

In today's conference, wit cloud also synchronized first Gokit3, compared to Gokit1 and Gokit2, the overall function more powerful, more humane, more connectivity, for the performance of GOKIT3, wit Cloud CEO Huang said: "The future of intelligent hardware interaction will be more and more rich, With the rapid development of hardware, the current mainstream touch-screen smartphones will be difficult to fully meet the needs of all users, so we added a voice interaction and gokit on the new functions, and with the cloud-aware sound cooperation to develop voice recognition, its sound noise reduction capabilities, not only in the technical aspects of the user to bring accurate experience, It also makes it more natural for smart homes and other scenarios that need to interact directly with the hardware. ”

At the technical level, the smart cloud has upgraded the native Wi-Fi-enabled GOKIT1 and 2 generations to the developer's bottom-line requirements, directly integrating Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 2G/3G/4G's Internet capabilities on the Gokit Development Board.

At the same time, in the face of the transformation of the communication chip industry, MCU and RF dual-chip solutions gradually chip-based solutions to replace the smart cloud on the Gokit Development Board to achieve direct Wi-Fi transmission through a SOC communication module and control of equipment components, reduce the amount of intelligent hardware after the cost of the problem, the future, More and more mainstream smart hardware will be connected and controlled in such a way.

It is also worth pointing out that, in the face of more and more developers of different hardware development requirements, the requirements of computing capacity is also increasing, so the smart cloud on the Gokit3 directly added to the high computational capacity of the processor, such as Inteledison, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Mipscpu and so on, these high-performance processors can help developers achieve smarter hardware products like robots. "It is reported that GOKIT3 will continue to open source and compatible with Arduino, free to developers, continue to promote the development of IoT developer ecology."

Wit Cloud 3.0 and the official release of GOKIT3, not only from the technical level for developers to bring positive help, greatly reducing the entry threshold of smart hardware, but also further completed from the IoT platform layout to the transformation of the ecological structure, along with the rapid development of the mobile internet era, wit cloud will be stronger technical strength, more forward-looking layout for hardware manufacturers To provide a more complete one-stop IoT full-cycle development and operation and maintenance management services.

-About wit cloud-

Wit Cloud is the first developer-oriented fully self-help intelligent Hardware Development platform (PaaS), providing developers with fast and intelligent hardware development tools for smart hardware manufacturers to provide one-stop IoT development and Operation Services, the current customer service from consumer smart hardware manufacturers (including smart home, smart hardware, wearable products), Industrial and commercial applications customers, smart city construction and innovation and entrepreneurship support, since the release of September 19, 2014, the platform has gathered tens of thousands of developers, self-access intelligent hardware equipment more than 9,000, access devices more than 3.3 million, open source projects 23, code 260,000 lines, send more than 200 million instructions a day, Trusted by over 500 customers worldwide, it is one of the largest intelligent hardware clusters at home and abroad.

-About "Gokit"-

Gokit is a smart cloud on September 19, 2014 launched the world's first to quickly understand, learning intelligent hardware development of the Internet of Things open source intelligent Hardware teaching Development Board, integrated Wi-Fi module, LED lights, temperature and humidity sensors, infrared light, motor and other intelligent hardware general sensor. Second generation Gokit on February 9, 2015 wit Yun million people launch, upgrade mainly realized the equipment and development environment optional, provide Arduino and St Two development Backplane, while compatible with the mainstream Wi-Fi module and 2G/3G module, continue to reduce the threshold of IoT development, There are already thousands of developers who have applied.

pcduino3s .

Pcduino is a mini PC platform, hardware performance indicators far superior Raspberry Pi, stable performance, excellent workmanship. It can install Ubuntu and Android ICS,HDMI's HD display output interface like a PC, and it can be compatible with the Arduino interface or develop Google TV.

Pcduino is specifically targeted at the rapidly growing needs of the open source community, namely the desire to have a platform to run a full PC operating system, easy-to-use Toolchain and compatible with popular Arduino's open ecosystem, such as Arduino Shield and open source projects. Its hardware performance indicators far superior Raspberry Pi, stable performance, excellent workmanship. The CPU of the Pcduino Mini computer uses the 1GHz ARM cortex-a8 Core, the DRAM is 1GB, the onboard storage reaches 2GB Flash and is fully compatible with the Arduino interface. In addition, the Pcduino can be started from NAND or from the MINI-SD card (TF card), in the NAND Flash factory preinstalled Ubuntu system, get hands can be used.

Cubietruck.

Cubietruck, also known as "Cubieboard3", is configured with a Cubieboard2-like Allwinner A20 master chip, and in the 2 version of the Foundation to enhance a lot of hardware configuration, such as 2GB memory, Gigabit Ethernet, wireless network card, Bluetooth, VGA interface.

Cubietruck features are as follows:

1. Processor

Allwinner A20, dual core ARM Cortex-a7,arm Mali400 MP2 complies support OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1

2. Onboard resources

2GB [email protected]

8GB NAND Flash with expandable support up to 32GB SD card

10m/100m/1000m Nic rtl8211e

WIFI+BT Wireless Card bcm AP6210, onboard antennas

[email protected] power, built-in Li-battery and RTC

HDMI+VGA Video Output interface

SATA 2.0 Interface

• USB Host X2,OTG x1,spdif x1,ir x1,leds x4,headphone X1,keys x3

• Expansion interface: 54pin, including i2s,i2c,spi,cvbs,lradcx2,uart,ps2,pwmx2,ts/csi,irda,linein&fmin&micin,tvinx4 and other interfaces.

3. Other

Size: 11cm x 8cm x 1.4mm

System: Support Android4.2.2,ubuntu 12.04 and other Linux versions, factory pre-burn Android4.2.

Firefly RK3288-Core micro-source hardware flat

Use the latest RK3288 processor, support Android4.4 and Ubuntu system, and support HDMI 4K ultra-high-definition output, extended also reserved for MIPI, LVDS and other LCD display interface and GPIO, SPI, i²c and other columns of the general interface, suitable for use as a file server , micro computer mainframe, industrial computer, network player, set-top box, advertising player, development Board, software programming learning.

17. Open Source Robot

NASA's Robonaut 2, Rethink Robotics Baxter and the Boston Power Atlas, all in common, are running the robotic operating system ROS (Robotics Operating System)--an open-source operating system, is rapidly becoming Android in the robotics industry. Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, says they have reached a tipping point, with the number of downloads of Ros doubling over the past year to 3.5 million, with the release of Ros 2.0 expected to soar again.

Of course, in addition to the above several major open source platform, there are also many excellent non-open source platform, such as the Friends of the eternal days, friendly arm, flying, embedded in the day.

!!! The world's most popular open source hardware platform! I don't know, it's out!