Re: Entrepreneurs
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:51 pm
Not sure that it's a "cool" business idea, but it's a business I would love to see.
The XMOS series are great for prototyping software. What is lacking, it seems to me, is the electronics needed to make the hardware prototyping easier.
It's much harder to prototype in hardware than software, I find.
I would love it if there was a company that sold plug in boards for the XMOS. I know there's the USB sound board, but I have in mind things that are much simpler, for instance:
- a simple A/D interface (something that I really miss on the XMOS coming from Arduino)
- simple high power output (darlington array of transistors)
- relay board
etc.
They should be cheap too, so keep them as basic as possible.
I would like to have a "LEGO" set of building blocks that I can take out of a draw, plug into my XK-1 board, include the right library and just go without having to mess around breardboarding electronics.
Alex
The XMOS series are great for prototyping software. What is lacking, it seems to me, is the electronics needed to make the hardware prototyping easier.
It's much harder to prototype in hardware than software, I find.
I would love it if there was a company that sold plug in boards for the XMOS. I know there's the USB sound board, but I have in mind things that are much simpler, for instance:
- a simple A/D interface (something that I really miss on the XMOS coming from Arduino)
- simple high power output (darlington array of transistors)
- relay board
etc.
They should be cheap too, so keep them as basic as possible.
I would like to have a "LEGO" set of building blocks that I can take out of a draw, plug into my XK-1 board, include the right library and just go without having to mess around breardboarding electronics.
Alex