Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board

Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by AaronFriel on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:34AM (#8107972)

Not quite - this might just be a board used by Microsoft as a high-powered test for shrinking Windows, but it's not the "Internet of Things" board that they've been talking about. That's this:

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/SetupGalileo.htm

It's a cheaper device, and it's about $70. It runs an even slimmer version of Windows. So it's much more a competitor with the Raspberry Pi than other Windows development boards (i.e.: this $300 one.)

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Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by taylorbuley on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:27AM (#8108328)

Right. No way I'm breadboarding this up at $300 per "Thing"

This appears to be a solid workbench device for developing add-on hardware (and the drivers to communicate with it)

The desire to compare to RaspPi is understood, especially when it plays into my preconceptions of the difficulty of Windows development. This thing is a monster.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rsz_b-... http://www.mouser.com/images/circuitco/lrg/595-SHARKSCOVE-PR...

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Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by steverb on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:31AM (#8108777)

Don't forget the Gadgeteer stuff MS has had for quite a while. It's pretty cool for rapidly prototyping "things".

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gadgeteer/

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