I just ordered 5 CHIP computers to set up a small wifi testnet. Any
thoughts on how these compare? One possible advantage of the CHIP is that
it includes battery charging circuitry to make a lithium battery a cheap
addition. On the other hand, this has an antenna connector. I'm wondering
if it's worth cancelling or reducing my order of CHIPs, since they won't
ship until October anyway.
-Jehan
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
It's a case-less board with a single 2.4 GHz radio
but it really is $5
including tax and shipping and you can buy as many as you want.
They're estimated to ship in November.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onion/omega2-5-iot-
computer-with-wi-fi-powered-by-linux
I ordered 10 of them for mesh projects.
It's a bit sad that they don't have the ethernet broken out since that
would make them useful as mesh routers that we could just hand out left and
right. We could make ethernet breakout boards for them ourselves if we feel
like doing some soldering, but given that you can buy an OpenWRT router for
~$12 with two ethernet ports and a case it's not obvious that this is worth
it.
If we're ok with just one ethernet port then we could buy a bunch of $1.75
USB ethernet adapters. Assume $1 for a dollar store plastic case and we
then have usable mesh routers for $8 a pop.
They're probably more useful as interfaces between e.g. LoRa hardware and
sensors and such where you just want it to be small, low power and cheap
but still want to run e.g. a full meshing protocol.
--
marc/juul
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