{"id":11291,"date":"2013-10-05T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2013-10-05T22:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:04:12","slug":"linux-capable-arduino-tre-debuts-at-maker-faire-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11291","title":{"rendered":"Linux-capable Arduino TRE debuts at Maker Faire Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As Zoe Romano puts it in an Arduino blog post, \u201cthe Arduino TRE is two Arduinos in one.\u201d Basically, the new ARM Cortex-A8-based Sitara AM335x\u2019s job is to run Linux applications and manage the SBC\u2019s PC-style interfaces (video, audio, Ethernet, USB, optional WiFi, etc.), while an Atmel ATmega microcontroller takes care of the SBC\u2019s real-world I\/O (analog inputs, digital I\/O, PWM outputs, etc) and handles the interface to shields (Arduino expansion modules) in a fully AVR-compatible manner. Best of all, Romano points out, the 1GHz TI ARM processor offers up to \u201c100 times more performance\u201d than Arduino\u2019s earlier Leonardo and Uno boards, writes Romano.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxgizmos.com\/arduino-tre-sbc-runs-linux-on-arm\/\">Linux-capable Arduino TRE debuts at Maker Faire Rome\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 LinuxGizmos.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s unique about the TRE, however, is that its Linux OS runs on an ARM processor that\u2019s truly integrated into the SBC\u2019s basic architecture, as opposed to being a collateral benefit of a WiFi add-on module. As a result, the TRE will support a \u201cfull Linux\u201d OS in contrast to the Yun\u2019s Linino OS, a custom version of the lightweight <a href=\"https:\/\/openwrt.org\/\" target=\"new\">OpenWRT<\/a> embedded Linux distribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Zoe Romano puts it in an Arduino blog post, \u201cthe Arduino TRE is two Arduinos in one.\u201d Basically, the new ARM Cortex-A8-based Sitara AM335x\u2019s job is to run Linux applications and manage the SBC\u2019s PC-style interfaces (video, audio, Ethernet, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[415,473,114,61],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-arduino","tag-arm","tag-computer-architecture","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}