SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-29T02:07:44-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsCustomer #634127 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #634127urn:uuid:ffe5d1ef-6e3e-41a6-160d-2aab82680d2b2016-08-26T19:32:10-06:00<p>How can I buy just the expansion board?</p>
Customer #491972 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #491972urn:uuid:222b30b9-1cf3-c537-47b6-2acaf9d0dbd72016-01-26T10:11:01-07:00<p>I cannot get I2C on this Expansion board to work at all and it is getting frustrating. Does anybody have any suggestions to comment!!!</p>
Customer #211132 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #211132urn:uuid:a76c2e90-77c2-fc89-a96b-1b59fed45ba22015-12-29T17:00:27-07:00<p>Been playing with this thing for a bit, and most of the standard IO works pretty well, but I'm having a pretty good amount of trouble connecting to a peripheral bluetooth device, (Eg a heart rate monitor) and reading the data. Is there a straightforward way of doing this? any arduino libraries?<p>Thanks</p></p>
Omi on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitOmiurn:uuid:4cc7df10-cecc-1562-a24f-c6a83694991f2015-07-13T11:08:32-06:00<p>Can anyone tell me the barrel size or recommend a product for powering this breakout? I'm surprised spark doesn't have a link to one of their own wall-wart products. (Hence my hesitancy buying one).<p>Thanks</p></p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:c16c8c38-8e46-4fa2-353f-1cf86786030f2015-04-17T22:03:54-06:00<p>I don't see anything recent with regard to comments, so thought I'd chime in:<p>This board is for those with just a little more experience under their belt than needed for the basic Arduino, and who need the extra power. The Edison is, of course, way faster than the Arduino, if you need that, and has much more program and RAM memory space to work with. It accepts most shields. It works with most existing example programs, and has its own libraries for implementing them.</p><p>So why an Edison instead of an Arduino? My reason is because I'm loading large matrices with LIDAR-Lite range data, and using large arrays in an occupancy grid for navigation and localization. Crunching big arrays to garner navigation data is very processor intensive, and speed counts. And the Arduino is useless when it comes to large arrays; memory is very limited.</p><p>Why the Edison instead of a Pi 2, or similar? The Edison is perfectly happy running without monitor, keyboard or mouse. All similar products I've looked at take a lot of fiddling (which is difficult to figure out for relative newbies) to get them to run bare. And getting other boards like this to run applications on boot-up can be problematic, while the Edison, loaded with an Arduino sketch via the IDE, runs on reboot automatically.</p><p>As for there not being a lot of documentation, there is plenty of that but it takes a lot of searching to find. However, when using the Intel in the Arduino mode (using the Arduino IDE), there's little to learn beyond what one already has to know to use the Arduino.</p><p>If you don't need the speed or the memory for large amounts of data, then just stick with the Arduino Uno. But if you need an Arduino-like board that is massive by comparison, the Edison gets my vote for being the easiest overall to use.</p></p>
Customer #611181 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #611181urn:uuid:34f5f3c1-0a4f-dd2d-5de5-79b7757290832014-12-28T10:59:49-07:00<p>During initial tests, I've been unimpressed by this board - no fast I/O like on Galileo boards, 5V logic incompatible with my other 3.3V devices, whereas other Galileo boards can be switched to 3.3V (this one can supposedly be switched to 2.5V, but that doesn't look too useful), very troublesome firmware update procedure (need to use Windows Explorer unzipper, any other ZIP unpacker would result in failure on update) and so on. That was until I ran my performance benchmarks... This thing is a beast! Among other single-board computers this board seems to be one of the most powerful ones. In my personal performance benchmarking tests (single-threaded), this thing outperforms UDOO Quad (my favorite) both in logical/integer tests and floating-point math...</p>
Customer #565537 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #565537urn:uuid:9a12349d-901d-35b9-5d59-382bb268ec762014-12-17T19:53:00-07:00<p>I don't understand why the software platform needs to be so robust for an IOT device. Could anyone please tell me the advantages of linux on this guy? If anything, I feel like IOT devices are moving in the FPGA (less code more logic) direction.</p>
codefoster on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitcodefosterurn:uuid:f2d6c9f6-284f-826d-ed23-0b931d96e5272014-12-05T23:24:12-07:00<p>Try mouser.com <a href="http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Intel/ARDUINOALB/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvyjua%252biESkioAgrw5p9Oify8KBGSwtWsQ%3D" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
codefoster on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitcodefosterurn:uuid:9f2ea926-dd70-4718-a5d1-3c91987fd36e2014-12-05T23:20:37-07:00<p>You can find one on mouser.com <a href="http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Intel/BBALB/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvyjua%252biESkiv%2F2xHD6sbC97Cl%252bV3GmwUE%3D" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
codefoster on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitcodefosterurn:uuid:b55805e3-8401-d795-f115-d4e837056dd62014-12-05T23:18:39-07:00<p>I created a blog post on setting this up that I think is a bit unique. I don't like the Arduino IDE much and I don't like the Intel XDK for IoT IDE much either, so I show you how to set your board up, create a simple Node.js app, deploy it to the board, and then run it. I also show you how to use Visual Studio to remote debug the app. Pretty cool. See codefoster.com/edison</p>
Customer #500571 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #500571urn:uuid:25411524-5c65-3623-4211-a214d591a47c2014-12-03T16:18:32-07:00<p>Any way to get the breakout board <em>without</em> the Edison? I just bought the starter kit which does not have the Arduino board and now I want to purchase just the breakout board. I do not want another Edison.</p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:fcaee657-7e0f-64df-b29d-bdae1504a2ba2014-11-15T03:35:48-07:00<p>By updating the MRAA and UPM libraries in the Eclipse IDE #include folders, the "blink" example provided in the Eclipse sample programs runs without the Segmentation Fault. For the life of me, why Intel doesn't update all their stuff is beyond me. Hate to be negative, but they must be short-handed over there. On the bright side, with everyone pitching in from the user community, the linux issues seem to be getting sorted out.</p>
Dmitri on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitDmitriurn:uuid:23a76b37-9785-d637-bdde-692e06e569cb2014-11-14T14:53:39-07:00<p>And even the latest image still have a rather old version of libmraa: 0.4.4c-r0 instead of 0.5.2.4<p>to update, type :
echo "src mraa-upm http://iotdk.intel.com/repos/1.1/intelgalactic" > /etc/opkg/mraa-upm.conf
opkg update
opkg install libmraa0
(copy and right click into terminal line by line, then enter)</p></p>
Dmitri on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitDmitriurn:uuid:f7fc31c3-3c13-ecec-0669-78523bf26ff82014-11-14T14:38:38-07:00<p>I wish I read you comment earlier. That old image was a real pain.</p>
Dmitri on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitDmitriurn:uuid:d84d15a5-cb57-5c70-b9e5-002ce4b874992014-11-14T14:35:39-07:00<p>I'd like to share my first experience with this kit. It was a big pain in a special place, however, it's over now. The main problem: this kit is shipped with a rather old and awfully buggy Edison image.<p>Mine was "edison-weekly_build_56_2014-08-20_15-54-05".
You can check it in the console: cat /etc/version</p><h1>68 is apparently the latest as for now. I got "edison-rel1-maint-weekly_build_16_2014-10-14_14-56-19" with the update.</h1><p>With #56, you will always lose the first character when using the console as if it went sleeping and missed the 1st keypress. It was so annoying! With #56, you won't enjoy programming with Eclipse because 80% of time it just won't work. That's why my advice for you is FLASH THE LATEST IMAGE IMMEDIATELY. There could be an error called "Segmentation fault" while using libmraa (for GPIO and other HW). This might be because of an older version of the lib. However, I got it after the lib update as well. With the old image though.</p><p>All in all, it's worth it. Keep in mind it's Linux, it's ever evolving, it's buggy. So keep updating.</p></p>
Customer #616601 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #616601urn:uuid:90b16458-6c88-b469-96ed-d11cb14fa24b2014-11-11T13:47:33-07:00<p>So, I can ssh into the Edison to run Linux and write a node.js program, and I can also upload an sketch from the Arduino IDE. So how do I get both of those programs to communicate with each other, or how can I write a node.js script to access the arduino library, or how do I access the i.e. bluetooth/wifi from an arduino sketch? Over serial, or what?</p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:1eb2e508-3db0-1452-6bc1-551cf979d9c12014-11-10T00:58:55-07:00<p>It appears the integers are 32 bit on the Edison Arduino IDE. Good news!</p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:6a1b6d64-4c9c-bf08-128a-51f0a861aec32014-11-04T18:33:08-07:00<p>It's hard to wait for the bugs to get worked out. But it's a brand new system, and I expect it to be worth the wait.</p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:a8b50236-e7d5-90c5-8118-b93423428b682014-11-03T19:11:25-07:00<p>If anyone finds they are able to use SPI, please explain how. I have the latest Yakto flashed, and am running the latest libraries, etc. To see the issue, just #include "SPI.h" and watch the fun!<p>Update: the trick is to delete the "Robot_Control" file out of the libraries folder in the sketch folder. Then sketches which include "SPI.h" will compile. The issue is that the noted file also contains "SPI.h", probably of a different flavor. In my case, the compiler dug down to get the SPI library in "Robot_Control" instead of using the one it should have, which is up a level...</p></p>
rlramirez77 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitrlramirez77urn:uuid:b12d1f5a-5ff0-b0e5-295f-2a08404a50142014-10-26T10:08:35-06:00<p>Just a heads up. Update the firmware and Yakto distribution per the instruction under the Edison "Getting Started" over on the Intel site, and do the same if you download the IoT tools, as all the code flashed on the device is too old at this point for any examples to run.</p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:34b3fb48-2b46-4303-c368-46a7327d93242014-10-25T14:09:13-06:00<p>I answered my own question. "Serial" and "Serial1" are both supported. A simple sketch that initialized Serial1 compiled without compliant. And then there's this: https://communities.intel.com/message/258157<p>My Edison is being employed on a rover bot along with a Mega. The Mega is dedicated to basic robot management and control, and sensor data gathering, while the Edison will be the high level executive taking care of a large occupancy grid for localizing and mapping, etc. The Mega is severely limited when it comes to large arrays, hence the Edison (which is also WAY faster).</p></p>
Customer #127179 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #127179urn:uuid:92abc077-7283-ec59-d43d-5e7bf9d1fbd02014-10-24T21:45:43-06:00<p>To address TX and RX pins (pin1 and pin0 on the Uno) using the Edison-flavor Arduino IDE for serial communications, the Internet says to use Serial1. Has anyone tried communicating through serial with other devices yet?</p>
Swift on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitSwifturn:uuid:43b3e4dc-0a35-a2b5-8be1-0f33f69369902014-10-17T21:17:18-06:00<p>Just got shipping confirmations. Love you SparkFun!</p>
M-Short on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitM-Shorturn:uuid:154285aa-83ad-2a41-b7ef-4dd6ea66b19d2014-10-15T11:54:22-06:00<p>I don't think it comes with an owners manual, but email techsupport@sparkfun.com and they should be able to help you out.</p>
mangatrade on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitmangatradeurn:uuid:8b663abc-1302-8e79-e367-a747486ab6ee2014-10-15T08:43:48-06:00<p>Thank you by your reply, could sparkfun includes a little ower manual to ship to Argentine? Cause without ower manual it can not clear custom-house.Thank you</p>
Customer #593699 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #593699urn:uuid:59aad00a-1f5b-05d5-2b03-e752a266dfc32014-10-09T15:55:20-06:00<p>It does not come with an owers manual. The product brief can be downloaded if needed. However it can be power from usb and does not require a wall-wart type power supply.</p>
mangatrade on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitmangatradeurn:uuid:6f3e1868-868e-c4a3-b17a-a032f7c979dc2014-10-02T15:04:48-06:00<p>I would like to know if it comes with an little user manual, cause custom-house in Argentine request it to clear custom... (it must say that power supply i should use with the board) Thank you</p>
acasado on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitacasadourn:uuid:d6c00141-a2d6-23c9-1c74-b33c0b0ddd2d2014-09-29T11:38:31-06:00<p>Btw: we need to reinstall the Arduino IDE for Edison/Galileo ??? Or the old IDE 1.5.3 for Galileo still will work ???</p>
Stratmaster458 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitStratmaster458urn:uuid:43015294-e3d3-f9a9-3893-19a36029d4262014-09-27T15:19:42-06:00<p>Will the arduino addon be sold separately for those of us who bought the Edison and Mini breakout ?</p>
Customer #593699 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #593699urn:uuid:7d6e5e8a-9cfe-304a-a185-43eb67c946522014-09-23T17:52:24-06:00<p>It works the same as the Galileo boards. The sketch is compiled into an elf binary and executed as a user space program.</p>
Dmitri on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitDmitriurn:uuid:ead4c712-01ff-0b5a-b8b3-8a8af4dee4212014-09-19T01:02:27-06:00<p>The Intel guy showed in his video how to put the LED blink program on it using the Intel-tailored Arduino IDE.</p>
M-Short on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitM-Shorturn:uuid:3422ced8-1235-45f3-807c-a1e8b74c5b842014-09-18T10:11:54-06:00<p>We will do our best to keep these in stock, but they are in short supply at the moment. Feel free to place a back order and save your place in line.</p>
alam234 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitalam234urn:uuid:40de93d9-433c-0cd5-4092-4311557d7adf2014-09-17T21:08:34-06:00<p>49 units sold within a day, can you put more stock. I've missed the 1st batch.</p>
gskelly on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitgskellyurn:uuid:4f7dcea6-dd4f-0270-32d9-d9887a7a5b462014-09-15T18:17:44-06:00<p>If I understand correctly, it basically means you can't program the Edison with the Arduino IDE, but you can use any shields designed for the Uno R3 pinout and the hardware should work. You just have to know how to program the Edison to take advantage of that. Code gets uploaded over the USB port, but you won't be able to use Arduino sketches directly.<p>EDIT: Okay, looks like I was wrong about the software bit: you should also be able to use sketches directly from the Arduino IDE? I'm also confused now.</p></p>
gskelly on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitgskellyurn:uuid:008afe49-d4d3-5adb-c4a3-5a3f0a1ef6d12014-09-15T18:06:51-06:00<p>The hardware guide's block diagram shows level shifting on all the shield connector digital I/O. It looks like the logic level can be selected as 3.3V or 5V using a jumper.</p>
Customer #595460 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #595460urn:uuid:45757620-3801-bb23-5d9a-e5bcaf381b1c2014-09-14T23:15:16-06:00<p>When will this product be back in stock?</p>
Customer #39159 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #39159urn:uuid:81bcf665-c3af-7919-2872-e40d1efffb7c2014-09-13T17:47:02-06:00<p>How should I interpret the line which says: "Though this kit won’t turn your Edison into an Arduino itself, you will, however, gain access to to the Arduino’s shield library and resources!"?</p>
Customer #39159 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #39159urn:uuid:c80bb913-1bde-2c4c-4a7d-17e59032ce932014-09-13T17:46:21-06:00<p>Will the Arduino Breakout stack with additional Edison blocks, or is this a terminal configuration? How about the 12V power supply - what connector etc? Should I also get the interface block kit?</p>
simple labs on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout Kitsimple labsurn:uuid:df609b41-63c9-b913-6340-3a51056ff5f62014-09-13T00:38:08-06:00<p>Does this handle level shifting to work with existing shields?</p>
Customer #229711 on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCustomer #229711urn:uuid:9315068a-cd2a-838b-550a-0048055799122014-09-12T09:07:35-06:00<p>The board is upside down, the ICSP seem to be in right place</p>
CarlosDelfino on DEV-13097 - Intel® Edison and Arduino Breakout KitCarlosDelfinourn:uuid:6a488be5-80a1-2b84-8fcb-838d0fe0148c2014-09-11T15:24:41-06:00<p>is my impression, or ICSP pin is out of place?</p>