MAKE | Arduino Announces New Wireless Linux Board
Today, Arduino announced a revolutionary new family of wireless
products that combine the Arduino architecture with Linux. The
Arduino Yún is intended to be the first member of this new line of wifi
products. Arduino expects the new board to bring the power of Linux with
ease of use of Arduino.
From the Arduino Press Office, “Yún means ‘cloud’ in Chinese language
as the purpose of this board to make it simple to connect to complex
web services directly from Arduino.”
Developed in partnership with Boston-based automation engineers Dog
Hunter, it’s basically a Leonardo (ATmega32U4) with an embedded wifi
Linux board on the PCB, running Linino (MIPS Linux variant) to handle
all those wordy text-based formats like XML and other HTTP transactions.
You can program it via wifi, or by the usual USB cable. And they’ve
also partnered with Temboo for one-stop API access to data from Twitter,
Facebook, Foursquare, FedEx, PayPal, and many more.
For $69 plus tax you get:
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