CapnSteve (Customer) asked a question.
Any plans to develop an industrial, expandable Raspberry-pi based product line similar to your new P1AM-100 arduino based product line?
There are many applications where arduinos are an incredible choice for a solution. There are other applications where something like a raspberry pi would yield an easier solution. Since arduino and raspberry pi are similar open source projects, I was hoping you might have plans to develop an industrial raspberry pi product line in a similar fashion to your new arduino line. If so, do you have any expected timelines you would like to share if there are plans for something like that?
Thank you, we’re delighted with the response to our P1AM Arduino compatible line! We’re evaluating new products in the open source space. But it’s difficult to provide timelines or commit to specific product features. Keep checking all the new products we launch each month!
It'd be really nice to have the SSL chip for cloud connectivity....
One of the problems I foresee here is that the RPi (and other Debian-based boards) run a full OS kernel, which can be prone to indeterminicity from things like dynamic heap allocation or blocking-calls initiated by the OS.
In my project, I've got a P1AM running the basic hardware control, and then an Ubuntu client in charge of running the web server and data collector. This way, were the web server to crash, I won't kill all of my livestock-
https://github.com/JohnnyG89/SeaDragon
If you absolutely must run a full OS kernel, I'd highly recommend the Preempt-RT kernel from Linux.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2013/03/intro-to-real-time-linux-for-embedded-developers/
https://lemariva.com/blog/2019/09/raspberry-pi-4b-preempt-rt-kernel-419y-performance-test