Intel Galileo is compatible with 4D Systems display modules using the standard Arduino Adaptor Shield, allowing it to communicate to basically all of the 4D Systems display module range, Goldelox, Picaso and Diablo16. So product like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11741 and this https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11740 are compatible.

I have this kit. I am just shooting a warning out to anyone who wants to do high speed SPI or I/O twiddling. This kit wont do it. All the I/O is sent through a I/O expander IC. There is NO access to any of the processor I/O lines. Its is a neat device but the designer killed it by do this.

I must admit... I feel mixed feelings about this. Compared to an Arduino it certainly seems like a capable board, but it seems lacking compared to a Raspberry Pi or a Beagleboard. ESPECIALLY for the price tag. And I have to use an I/O expander? That doesn't seem like they thought the design through.

On the other hand... this is an x86-based board meant to be Linux compatible. Compared to the R-Pi and Beagleboard this could MAYBE guarantee more "mainstream" support from upstream.

Ultimately, I'll pass, wait to see if Intel will make a followup board with comparable specs to an R-Pi at half this MSRP and NOT force the use of an I/O expander. Might be more worthwhile to invest in a high-end Arduino or an R-Pi/Beagle.

Please don't get fooled by some of the comments mentioning that all I/O is sent through I/O expander IC. This thing has actually two "fast I/O" pins that go directly to Quark chip; for these pins, changing value is merely a bit shift in memory. The board is also quite reliable, mine has gone through quite some abuse, including shorting, connecting incorrect power supply, falling down from the desk, etc. and yet it still works flawlessly. I also own Galileo Gen2, which has actually 6 fast I/O pins instead of 2, but I like Gen1 more because of 5V supply and smaller dimensions. I'm using these boards for scientific work. Keep in mind that there is also a libmraa library you can use with this board.

My friend is going on in Albany this duarante five days, you give the hotel? How many days for delivery?

My friend is going on in Albany this duarante five days, you give the hotel? How many days for delivery?

Does anybody know if the Galileo Gen 2's Arduino header pins are being controlled by a different chip? On the Galileo, those pins are being controlled by a separate chip, which means that those pins cannot be clocked higher than a certain speed (I don't remember what that was, but I know it was too slow to use SoftwareSerial library). I hop the Gen 2 either uses a different chip that can clock those pins much faster, or hook those pins up directly to the Quark.

Hey, SparkFun, I was wondering if you were ever planning on picking up the Galileo Gen 2?

Picked up one of the gen 2 boards today at a local shop. I was hesitant at first but grabbed it anyway. After watching a few videos on Intel's website I'm pretty blown away. Search for: Getting Started with the Intel® Galileo Board Using Sparkfun's 3.3v FTDI board, I could telnet directly into the underlying Linux distribution. Plugged in a stray 16GB micro SD card and had ethernet, storage and pretty good memory available to a bunch of Arduino sketches. Pretty cool!

Has anyone made something with this yet?

For anyone looking at the Galileo I'd suggest looking at the Arduino Yun as well. I found the Galileo to be quite a chore to get working including having to make the special serial cable, getting the better linux distribution, buying the usb/serial cable, the challenging performance of the arduino side. On the other hand I had the Yun up and going in no time at all. In conclusion, unless you have a compelling reason for using the Galileo I'd suggest you consider the Arduino Yun.

I think Galileo is a wonderful stuff and we have make an USB to RS232/TTL converter to connect it, you can go to www.goembed.com to learn more details, wish you have some fun.

Has anyone used this with Windows Embedded Standard 7 or Windows CE? I have WES7 and can not get the galileo working. The drivers fail to install, then after going to the folder (per the install guide) the file usbser.sys is not located in either the "drivers" or "DriverStore" directories. Depending on the method I take to install the driver, I get either an "inf" error message, or driver up to date message. Either way, I still show a trouble icon in my device manager for the Gadget Serial V2.4 port.

Any help getting this to work on WES would be appreciated.

Can I power this with POE?

I was reading the hardware document and it does support virtual 8086 so I guess it can run dos! Now somone just needs to make a bios for it:)

Does anyone know what the floating point performance is out of it? I find it more interesting to have a cheap development board with ah hardware floating point than anything else.

So what do you all think about this claim, found over at MakerShed:

"The Galileo runs Linux straight out of the box, and has the ability (unlike others) to multitask while operating an Arduino sketch-- this opens up a world of new opportunities for your projects."

Now I can totally understand that the IDE will compile the sketch as a user-level executable that will run on the included Linux distro a a regular process...but does that mean that I can load more than one? Do they get like a name or something and then I can ssh into the board and fire them off?

The headline here is definitely x86 which makes it now possible to economically port some older software. Note that this is a Pentium class chip. That sounds good to our modern ears used to Pentium 4's and the like, but it is not that architecture. The Pentium name here would seem to mean that this is compatible with the Pentium that came before the Pentium Pro (1993). That said they have baked in a lot of peripherals to make the chip stand well on its own. This means if you want to put an OS on the board you will be limited to DOS or an embedded OS, but you should be able to accomplish a lot with a true embedded OS.

Microcenter sells it for $39.99 ($59.99 - $20.00 coupon) "goolge intel galilieo coupon".

So this board seems fairly good, though to anyone who is looking to use it in a high power applications I suggest that a rasberry pi or beaglebone black be used for a couple reasons.

To answer a few questions, the board is x86 compatible and runs at up to 400mhz, the clock speed is variable and the cpu is single thread only; fairly on par with current boards.

The ram is surprisingly good, from the datasheet it seems that it is 512kb SRAM on the CPU with 256mb DDR3 available aswell. It will run DOS, though as there isn't a GPU (from what I can tell) there won't be a tiny XP laptop anytime soon.

The graphics chip on this isn't really mentioned anywhere so I suspect there isn't really one to speak of. Something to bear in mind for portable applications, something like the nokia serial LCD or sparkfuns Grapics LCD series will be fine. Anything using lots of pixels and in colour will be slow.

As Member #38914 said, the processor I/O lines are not available and everything is through an I/O expander, larger applications using lots of modules and displays will lag quite a bit.

Having said that this board will do mostly anything, including SPI and I2C. Its only limitation is the amount of pins available, and as said earlier there is already an I/O expander in use so adding a second will be a lot like adding a usb hub to the rasberry pi.

The board itself is pretty good, its main drawcard is that it is not an ARM board so any applications that require the x86 instruction set will work. I suspect intel meant for this to be used in legacy applications where lots of old and archaic hardware is used, such as mining where oftentimes older hardware is required to monitor expensive equipment. For those looking to make anything where the main interface is a colour monitor or lots of I/O pins are used then use a Beaglebone Black, for tons of support and the ability to run a web browser the Pi is the better option.

I will say one thing, for $80 the price/performance is very lacking. Much of that cost was probably from shrinking a pentium down that much.

Some questions, I know most are in the Datasheet, but would be nice if it was listed here. Is this real-time? What is the processor speed? What about floating point vector math? RAM? What is the Linux stuff I read, I don't get it.

Salut, just a comment on the vaproware: I have it here in Germany on my desk ordered from a normal retailer (www.watterott.com). It sells at 65 Eur (~89 USD) including 19% VAT. Others have it as well across Europe (i.e. France). Ciao, Mathias

"so we recommend not including any other items on the order"

Can I include a humidity sensor with this vaporware?

Seriously, why is this even here? The product doesn't exist, no one knows what it actually does and no one knows if/when it will ever be available. If this wasn't Sparkfun, I'd say it was some kind of a scam , but this company's too honest for that. So I'm puzzled.

It's one thing to have this kind of silliness initially from small startups, like the Pi guys, but Intel? Something is seriously wrong here. Probably a better idea to keep your money in the bank until this becomes a real product. Unless you want to send it to me for an anti-gravity drive. It's not finished yet, I don't know when it will be or when it'll get to into production, but it's real slick and has an Arduino in it :-)

As for the Arduino Yun in some way, I'm very confused about this board. The main question I have is "why the heck should I buy this expensive board over a 35$ RPi"? Sure, I sounds awesome, but I got 3 RPi and one first-gen pcDuino, and the latter is arduino compatible too. One nice things though is the 5V switch: nice! But the lack of HDMI port is completely stupid. To me, at least.

I think we need a comparison chart between pcDuinos, RPis, Beagle boards and such to see clearly through all of this.

Since this thing is described as a "32-bit Intel Pentium®-class system on a chip (SoC)." is there any chance that it would run DOS, or another x86 O/S? I'm really not clear on how/why someone would use this vs. another Arduino style MCU (aside from the ports/expandability on it) and/or why it's important to know that it's an x86 machine, so long as we're programming it w/ Arduino sketches... What am I missing?