The last two times I corresponded with you guys at Spark Fun I ended up feeling like a jerk. A know nothing, careless, "what do you mean rtfm?" type. So I am not surprised to be struggling to get Ubilinux BT to pair with my cheap new headset. But I expect to have fun with this setup for a long time, and i wish Intel the best in their struggle with ARM. Thank you. And if I ever get my computer belt going I'll let you know.

Was extremely easy to get going. In a matter of minutes I was in the serial console, running node.js scripts from their XDK IoT IDE.

Great service. There was a problem with shipping the LiPo battery but it was quickly resolved. I am still trying to get the Edison working as well as the Raspberry Pi but it is clear that the Edison environment is still not very mature. Its too bad that Intel has not settled on a Ubilinux and their default O/S. They are clearly missing out on the RPI momentum. Otherwise, I am rather clear with the Sparkfun blocks. Without Sparkfun, the Edison would likely be as successful as its predecessor. Intel is not so grreat at listening to the needs of the market...

My base board doesnt mount as a storage device, and the edison gives me an error when i use lsusb. I've contacted tech support through email multiples times, but have yet to receive a reply. I have sent them messages on twitter, and even attempted to chat with them, but they are never available for chat.

I give up. I'm returning this thing and buying the intel dev board from adafruit.

I haven't found a good step by step start up tutorial to get 'hello world' or blinky light. So it's still pretty much in the box.

Received my kit just before Christmas and been busy playing with it ever since. It is obvious what the potential for the kit is down the road, there are many many possibilities.

I found the initial experimentation easy for someone familiar with Linux. The moment more decent programming is involved it gets really really hard. That is because documentation for a proper development environment is poor or does not exist and is only written by "those who know" for "those who already know".

Nonetheless, you have to make that investment to get the payoff down the road.

Very pleased with this kit, I would imagine it is quite easy to transition from Arduino or others to the Edison. I'm still learning about about using MRAA for IO control, and looking forward to exploring the Edison's possibilities!

Also a massive thankyou to SparkFun for prompt international delivery and awesome customer service and communication. Thanks guys.

As a relative novice in this level of microprocessor, it would help to see many more projects in detail. I assume this will occur with time and more developers.

The intel edison starter kit from Sparkfun is a great way to get started with the intel edison. it keeps things small and avoids the bloat of the bulkier "arduino" form factor boards that try to make into another arduino something that is not. The base block is just right and just enough to break out the pieces of the edison needed to get started. The battery block is excellent as with it the edison is now not tied to a power source. the only improvement Sparkfun ought make here is rather than soldering the battery leads to the board, the battery board should have a standard rc type battery/charging connector as should the battery and the battery should be a separate item such that one may choose an appropriately sized battery for their use. A few minutes with a soldering iron along with the needed rework fixes this however. The gpio block breaks out another serial port, pwm, and some gpio pins - just wish it broke out i2c as well - maybe sparkfun could do a bigger version with say a 40 pin dip footprint. great kit.

This worked right out of the box, and was on my WiFi in minutes.

The tiny connector allows smalles size and overall height, program resources makes it very flexible.

Is it possible for something to be too flexible? Yes - when you have to work through all the different documentation that's available! The Intel Edison can be used in any of three modes (or all at the same time!): * As a Node.js web server; * As an Arduino development bed (with the right Block); * As an Eclipse C/C++ Linux development bed (which is what I wanted it for). The different Blocks available for the Edison make it very adaptable for different projects: my current one uses the Battery Block, the UART Block and the OLED Block, along with a SparkFun GPS device (GP-20U7), to receive and decode the NMEA-0183 messages to display my position, course and speed. The information available for all this exists, but you have to work through both SparkFun's and Intel's documentation - and Intel have completely changed their environment since SparkFun wrote their stuff on programming the Edison. I've got it all working to my satisfaction though: now on to my next project! Hmmm.....