Open Source All-in-One Wireless Development Board

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-ONE-p-2017.html

by kfihihc • 12 years ago

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sjuut• 12 years ago

This looks really interesting for e.g. tracking devices

scoot• 12 years ago

There are plant of those available off-the-shelf from your favourite Chinese e-tailer (or eBay): http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=gps+tracker

billLiu• 12 years ago

Cool

kumarski2• 12 years ago

This turns your android into a the same type of shield.

http://1sheeld.com

kfihihc• 12 years ago

It diffrent from 1Sheeld, LinkIt includes GPS/GPRS and runs an RTOS. So, you can make it work outside.

kumarski2• 12 years ago

I see. Both look worth having.

biggy• 12 years ago

Marvel! Name it Hunger ¡ jajajaja

sounds2• 12 years ago

Something to be careful about - MediaTek has a reputation of being very hard to work with. As long as you're not trying to do anything beyond what Seeed Studio has already provided for, not a problem.

But if you run into something where you need MediaTek's help, you're out of luck.

Just hope I can save you that little discovery.

userbinator• 12 years ago

I know that a lot of documentation and support can be obtained from various Chinese sites, at least for MTK's phone SoCs. It's absolutely true that trying to approach them "through the front door" will not yield anything worthwhile, but the culture has found other means. If this one becomes popular, I expect the same to happen.

On the bright side, at least it's not Broadcom.

ausjke• 12 years ago

I start laughing when I saw the last sentence, in all my designs I tried to avoid Broadcom as much as possible. Same as Marvell, you don't get anything other than a two-page brief before you sign a NDA, and if you're not a volume player, you normally don't get a chance to even sign the NDA.

Marvell is getting slightly better with docs, but still light-year behind TI and Freescale, whose design docs are pretty much all publicly accessible.

radagast• 12 years ago

I recommend looking at the CELLv1 from SparqEE[1] if anyone is looking for a nice development board for RaspberryPi/Arduino. It supports 3G, not only GPRS as most of the other GSM boards available.

I received mine a few weeks ago and have been having loads of fun working with it.

[1] http://www.sparqee.com/portfolio/sparqee-cell/

mikegioia2• 12 years ago

I'm assuming not, but does anyone know if the wifi/gsm/baseband code is open source? What benefit would having the GPS/SOC hardware data sheets provide if the firmware code is closed?

bravo22• 12 years ago

For GSM the baseband code is always closed. It is often loaded into the module. Part of a modular approval for PTCRB (as well as FCC/CE) is that the end user can't change the power and radiation profile of the device. This is one reason why the source is closed.

What you'd normally care about is the protocol to talk to that baseband. 9/10 for M2M applications it is the 3GPP AT Commands and PPP therefore you can pretty much use PPP dialer to talk to it.

mikegioia2• 12 years ago

Ahh I see. Thank you, you gave me a bunch of fun new things to google.

Wells_Tu3• 12 years ago

LinkIt ONE integrates with 8 key features,ARM7 EJ-S™, GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth BR/EDR/BLE, GPS, Audio codec, and SD card,which GPRS,GSM,Wifi functions can be used for IoT prototype,for wearables,BLE ,GPS,Audio are too important to without.I guess someone who have played Arduino can operate this board easily,now what I care is the software it supports.

Wells_Tu3• 12 years ago

Perhaps the resources column in linkit one page(http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/LinkIt-ONE-p-2017.html) show us something to get started

Open Source All-in-One Wireless Development Board

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