At today’s Bay Area Maker Fair, Arduino announced its newest board—the Arduino Yún. The board is an Arduino Leonardo running Linino, a Linux fork based on OpenWRT. The board is Wi-Fi capable, which Arduino hopes will encourage people to use the boards to make cloud-ready projects.
In an official statement the company explained: “Historically, interfacing Arduino with complex Web services has been quite a challenge due to the limited memory available. Web services tend to use verbose text-based formats like XML that require quite a lot or ram to parse. On the Arduino Yún we have created the Bridge library which delegates all network connections and processing of HTTP transactions to the Linux machine.”
Earlier this week, another company called Spark Devices launched a similar idea on Kickstarter called Spark Core. That initiative puts forward a Wi-Fi capable board for Arduino projects that permits wireless programming and the ability to interface with Web services. The company originally asked for $10,000 and has since raised more than $300,000. (The campaign ends June 1.)
"Spark Flash means that your projects stay in their enclosures, out in the field, and in the hands and homes of users where they belong.” Spark Devices wrote on its Kickstarter page. “It also means that your creations can be easily changed, updated, and improved over time without worrying about USB ports and programmer pins.”
The Yún will be available at the end of June for $69 plus tax. You can reserve a Spark Core for $39 today for delivery sometime in September.
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