Kinoma Create

Hi,

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kinoma-create

opinions?
Mine are: It certainly is cool running javascript on microcontrollers, we already know from experience. Package looks nice, programming environment is to be seen, and it's a bit too expensive for my own taste (I actually find espruino a bit too expensive already, if it costed 5$ I could do different things with it)... anyway, it's ARM based too, so some form of cross usefulness could be exploited maybe? (I mean, if their community writes something it could be ported here).

Bye

Personally I don't get it at all...

I'm not really sure what it does any better than a Raspberry Pi + LCD shield... It's not significantly smaller, and it's not going to be better supported or have more of a community.

I guess maybe battery life might be better, but even so - it's unlikely to be amazing.

It´s a complete different product design. Bulky, predefined display, predefined enclosure, and so on. A bit like a toy. Complete different audience. I think, that people who love the Espruino like me, never get warm with kinoma. Maybe vise versa.

http://tessel.io matches more the Espruino aproach. If i need more CPU/Memory then tessel could be a option. But until then who knows if there is an Espruino++ around the corner ;-).

Regards

Sacha

:) Yes, 'Toy' is what came to mind for me as well - however I guess it might make electronics more approachable to people...