Intel Atom for Makers and the DIY Community
summary
A low-cost minnow board ships as an open‑hardware Intel Atom platform retailing around $199 with a 1 GHz Atom, 1 GB RAM and PC standards like PCIe SATA gigabit Ethernet, runs Angstrom or Yocto/OpenEmbedded, and exposes schematics and Gerbers for product spins. A demo couples OpenCV to an OWI robot arm to make a “fish picker upper,” implemented in under 300 lines of Python using a $40–50 arm plus a $20 controller, works within a six‑inch radius but struggles with focus, lighting and non‑servo motors.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Its a great time to be a hacker
- 4:14Specifications
- 6:41Expandability
- 9:40Fish Pickerupper
- 10:57Robot Arm
- 12:02Challenges
- 14:38Hacking
- 15:07Web Camera
- 15:33OpenCV
- 18:38Object Marker
- 21:07Face Detection Demo
- 22:52Fish Picking Demo
- 26:24Yocto Project
- 30:13Future Plans
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