The RIoTboard is a fully-featured development platform with just the right peripherals, expandability and processor power to run your open source project.
To enter the sweepstake, you simply need to explain the project you’d likely use the RIoTboard for.
Enter here: http://contact.freescale.com/LP=674
The RIoTboard features the Freescale i.MX 6Solo applications processor, using an ARM Cortex-A9 architecture.
The 1 GHz processor allows for OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics accelerator with shader and a 2D graphics accelerator. The device also provides the capability to drive HDMI 1080p video processing and flexible video inputs such as LVDS and CMOS camera options.
Freescale’s Kinetis MCU (K20) MCU also is integrated for debug and available for added programming and functionality.
The RIoTboard open source development platform is a low-cost, fully-featured, single-board computer developed to address the needs of demanding applications requiring high levels of processing power on an open source platform.
The team tasked with creating such a development platform knew that a closed architecture with long software development cycles would not make it successful in the IoT market. Influenced by the same open source methods used in their respective personal and professional lives, the team of engineers suggested that the key was to open the architecture, open the software, and open the board to the open source community. The RIoTboard was created with these ideas in mind.
The RIoTboard is first and foremost an open-source board with detailed schematics available for download for use in your design. Additionally, the RIoTboard community also provides an Android OS distribution for applications requiring tablet and mobile experiences. A distribution of Linux can also be downloaded.
Entries will be accepted until the 10th of February 2015. Winners will be notified shortly after.
