According to Boston-based developer UDOO, the Neo board combines the features of Arduino and Raspberry Pi and so can be programmed in any language and run a full Linux environment with graphic interfaces.
The developer’s first UDOO board was intended for students to learn the basics of coding and electronics. It could be used to build digital installations, interactive museums or new musical instruments.
But they found it was being used by start-ups to prototype systems such as augmented reality applications for museums, and so the developers came up with the Neo board aimed squarely at IoT product development.
It has a dual-core Freescale i.MX 6SoloX processor with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 and 166MHz ARM Cortex-M4 I/O real-time co-processor.
The board has 9-axis motion sensors and adopts the Arduino UNO pinout layout. So Arduino shields such as actuators and sensor nodes, those basics of good IoT device design, can be added.
There is wireless comms with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.
The board, which sells for $49, will run Android 4.4.3.
The UDOO Neo Kernel will be based on the Linux Kernel 3.10.
“We are developing a dedicated Ubuntu-based distro for UDOO Neo, like we did with UDOObuntu for UDOO. Since UDOO Neo is an open-source hardware project, we will release u-Boot and kernel sources,” said the developers at UDOO.
UDOO Neo supports Android Kitkat 4.4.3. It will be a Vanilla Android: an Android version without any customization, in order to allow you to fully customize.
So it is possible to install Google Apps like Google Play, Chrome, Google Now and YouTube.
The developers for UDOO are part of a co-founded project by SECO (www.seco.com) and Aidilab (www.aidilab.com), with teams in Europe and the US.
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