Another example of what amazingly low cost small format boards give us... This one costs about the same as a Raspberry Pi Zero + WiFi dongle combo.
http://www.seeed.cc/linkit_smart_7688/
$13 or $16. The latter "includes" an Atmel AVR (coprocessor?).
MIPS MCU (somewhat odd?) MIPS24KEc 580 MHz
Gobs of flash and RAM.
Ethernet interface but RJ45 is off-board.
USB host SPI, UART, etc.
Runs OpenWrt Linux - I assume that GCC supports MIPS.
Personally, I've purchased some ESP8266-based boards and an RPi Zero and others, and fiddled with all. I don't like the ESP8266 due to it suffering from being too cheap -and all that brings (bad docs, trial and error, etc.). The WiFi'd RPi Zero has been great in tests I've been doing with it and an Xbee piggyback board - as a home automation hub with all the app code in quick and easy Python. Remotely located Xbee do sensor data acquisition and transmission (A/D, GPIOs, pin change, etc) - with no MCU or code; Xbee's stock firmware does it all. Just code at the hub.
http://www.seeed.cc/linkit_smart_7688/
$13 or $16. The latter "includes" an Atmel AVR (coprocessor?).
MIPS MCU (somewhat odd?) MIPS24KEc 580 MHz
Gobs of flash and RAM.
Ethernet interface but RJ45 is off-board.
USB host SPI, UART, etc.
Runs OpenWrt Linux - I assume that GCC supports MIPS.
Personally, I've purchased some ESP8266-based boards and an RPi Zero and others, and fiddled with all. I don't like the ESP8266 due to it suffering from being too cheap -and all that brings (bad docs, trial and error, etc.). The WiFi'd RPi Zero has been great in tests I've been doing with it and an Xbee piggyback board - as a home automation hub with all the app code in quick and easy Python. Remotely located Xbee do sensor data acquisition and transmission (A/D, GPIOs, pin change, etc) - with no MCU or code; Xbee's stock firmware does it all. Just code at the hub.
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