so lets see some talk,

what will you try and do with a udoo?

my favorite opensource project is working on a due compatable shield, so I could use the due part of a udoo for a quad/hexocopter flight system.

 

I'll try to write a front end for the 3D printer I just bought. It uses an Arduino Uno for control, and it'd be great to integrate everything into a single package with a special control interface with a touchscreen for slicing the 3D files and printing (so I don't have to attach a Notebook to it).

 

nice idea, I think it might work good, maybe a bit slow when slicing. but still great idea

 

Well, the specific 3D printer is DLP-based (B9Creator), so slicing is literally just slicing into a 1024x768 1-bit bitmap, there's no gcode generation needed. This can be offloaded to the onboard graphics accelerator (I'm a 3D graphics programmer actually), so maybe I can get some decent enough performance out of this — I can even do the slicing while the print is already running, further cutting down the precalculation time.

The UDOO is ideally suited for this: I can connect the DLP projector to the HDMI output of the UDOO (which displays the sliced model), a separate touchscreen for the user interface to the LVDS port (UDOO Kickstarter update #10 shows the two connectors operating at the same time), the motor/sensor connection shield to the onboard Arduino and even offer a USB connection for plugging in USB sticks containing the models to be printed, an SD slot for the same, or let the user download them via WIFI/cabled Ethernet.

The full source code for that printer is available (both the Arduino part and the desktop part), so all I have to do is to get the shield to the 3.3V level and rewrite the desktop software to be usable on a kiosk-style touchscreen and use OpenGL ES. The desktop software is already written in Qt, so porting this to Qt Quick should be straight forward as well.

 

Nice, Wish I could afford a 3d printer, Its a big expense for me though,

 

Hello all,
I have a very general and basic question. Does the Udoo come with the Arduino Due board complete or do we have purchase a Due and attach it on the UDoo? What exactly do them mean when they say it it compatible?

Warm Regards,
Visal

 

Anyone knows what comes with the starter kit sold with the pre order?

 

You don't have to buy Duo - it's already "soldered" into the UDOO board. Arduino (Amtel) chip and all accompanying pins are already there with the main Freescale processor.

 

As shop page says:

8GB micro sd (empty)
HDMI cable
USB Type A to Micro USB Type B cable

 

As for my plans for UDOO, I have 2 projects:

1. make a weather station out of I2C thermometer/barometer and humidity sensors;

2. FM receiving station.

A longer-term (and a more interesting) project would be starting a software-defined radio receiver out of UDOO, but I'm not sure where to start yet.

 

I am new to Arduino so my first steps will be to figure out what I can do. After that I was thinking about creating an arcade where the Due will control flashing lights that either activate with sound cues or in game scoring (e.g. high hit combo in a fighting game). Then if I get good at it I will get a bunch and make it the basis of a home automation system.

 

isnt there sdr software for the raspberry pi? if so maybe look there for ideas?

 

I'd like to try and use it for a home media server with some fun peripherals. Honestly, I know I can do this wit the RPi, but the RPi doesn't have proper Gigabit Ethernet and, apparently, the Udoo does. Does anyone know if the Udoo's Ethernet port is true Gigabit and if it shares with the USB line? The RPi's does and it makes the RPi less than ideal for streaming media while using the network for other tasks.

I haven't quite figured out what I'd like to do with the microcontroller side of the Udoo, yet, but it's nice to have functionality, too. It might be neat to use the microcontroller side to be able to turn a TV on and off using either an IR remote or a web-app linked to the Udoo's processor. I think I could use the processors GPIO for this, too, but I might as well make use of what I have, right?

 

Art

I have a current project working under a Due
it uses the built in ADC at high speed (~4Mbytes/sec)

& on the UDOO I want to push the data to the other OS (Linux/etc ) to save (sata) & display (hdmi) the large and fast amount of data collected

i'm worried about the communication channels / overhead of USB channel communications between the processors
.. been lurking on Arduino boards & have not seen any transfer of data close to what i need except via SPI to SD cards

any comments ?

 

I'm curious, what are you using the adc for? I have a project where I want to use the 12 adc inputs for measuring temperature using lm35's and lm65's.

Don

 

pulling in image data off a Linear CCD @ 1MSpS (theoretical max data rate of the Due)