It’s a special day for the Makers’ community. Massimo Banzi is in San Francisco attending Build Conference, the biggest developer event of the calendar year for Microsoft and today Microsoft is announcing a strong partnership with Arduino: Windows 10 is in fact the world’s first Arduino certified operating system!
Arduino Certified’ Windows 10 enables makers to easily create smart objects combining hardware-driving capability of Arduino with the software capabilities of Windows.
For example, a security camera can be built by using Arduino to power the motors controls to tilt/turn the camera and using Universal Windows Platform (UWP) to create great UI, to connect the camera to the cloud, to process the image for motion detection and for adding facial/voice recognition.
Full article can be found here.
http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/04/30/microsoft-and-arduino-new-partnership/
@Luis I respect you man, you're a brilliant programmer... Hopefully you didn't post this as a dig to ez robot.... But seriously? Microsoft and Arduino still have 5 years to catch up to ez robot... Dj is wearing a t-shirt that says been there done that... Tell you what l, when the dust settles you post your best Microsoft /arduino robot. I pledge d.Cochran's soon to be released inMoov and we'll see..... Sorry, but I am a bit annoyed by this post. ..
I read the article this morning and while it may be exciting for some, it wasn't really for me. I don't mention it often but some of you may know that I come from a Arduino/Maker culture background. I was entrenched in it for 5 years and it's where I started my Hobby electronics/robotics career. While I do have plenty of respect for the Arduino community and team, unfortunately Arduino has vastly under-delivered on many exciting prospects and partnerships over the past couple years. They have had hugely publicized projects that have fizzled out quickly and hadn't gained much traction at all.
Examples:
Arduino + Android = Arduino APK Arduino + Atmel = Due Arduino + Texas Instruments = Tre Arduino + Intel = Galileo
Arduino has been firing in all directions lately and have spread themselves so thin that I don't hold much hope for this new announcement unfortunately. It seems that they have been working toward spreading out their community and I think it may be working against them as nothing seems to stick.
I am much more excited about Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi. I already have 2 Pi's doing things I couldn't have imagined that small a computer could do just a few years ago, and I am much more comfortable in Windows than Linux. I haven't even started looking at the gpio yet, but the idea of computerizing objects (other than Robots, where EZ-B is still superior) is really interesting to me.
Alan
Yes me too Alan! I reeaallllly want to see ARC running on the RPi 2 with Windows 10
wow. Ok first did not post as a dig. I use ezb controllers so stand down dude! I just use them in conjunction with ezb and other micro controller and use them in tandem. It is the full of hate reply you send that keep me off the board.
I'm sorry if your offended we are talking robots and microprocessors here. You to get angry because someone is including something else into the mix is just closed minded and ignorant.
Richard R
I left before due to just short sightedness on your part.
Hey @Luis I don't think @Richard is mad or anything, like he mentioned he was slightly annoyed.
I think there wasn't any context to your original post so I think most of us were unsure how to take it.
Re: Windows 10 on Pi, the preview was just released. I haven't downloaded yet, but my understanding is that it will be morw like Windows Phone than full blown windows, so will probably take a special build of ARC, but still. And the way processors are shrinking and growing in power, I am sure the next iteration of the Pi will be at least as powerful as my Acer W3 which runs ARC with ease.
Alan
My post was made to a community of folks that have interest in robotic. I have 5 children my self and love anything that will bring this type of electronics and education to the masses. DJ would not be here today had he not experimented and learned the basics. DJ has an awesome platform here and I use it. And I use it with other platforms because diversity builds the future. I do not believe everyone here is a EZRobot Zellot as Richard is and I feel more folks are interested in learning and growing. I believe what Microsoft has done will produce something you may have failed to see. It will product a new generation of DJ SURES! To have the approach that this is the end all beat all and no one else should try is fine. If you are a EZBobot Zellot , But if you are a into Robot , Robot in general then you would understand how I felt this would be of interest to this community.
I do not wish to engages in you build this robot and test it against that robot , you failed to realize the end product is not robots , Its the learner , the trial and error, its the road , not the destination.
Take it for what its worth.
(note to DJ) DJ think your brilliant and your boards rock , I use them in each project. I didn't what you think I felt any less as Richard has implied.