At the just-concluded Shanghai Maker Carnival, an intelligent porcelain cup attracted the attention of the author.

It looks like a normal porcelain cup, but the changing flash pattern on the cup reveals identity. Yes, the cup surface is actually a screen. The display person draws the surface of the cup like a mobile phone. The cup will have different functions, such as watching WeChat news, listening to songs, playing games, and so on.

This smart porcelain cup is based on the Edison technology platform and was developed by Intel China Research Institute. The porcelain cup is a two-layer structure. Edison's IO expansion board, LED screen, battery and other large parts are all in the interlayer. Because both inside and outside are waterproof, you can use it as a daily appliance with confidence. In addition to Edison, there are MCU, speaker, wireless charging and other modules on the IO expansion board.

A cup, so versatile may make ordinary users feel too complicated, but it is an attractive display for the exhibition's makers. This group is pursuing a kind of turning impossible into Possible satisfaction. Song Jiqiang, director of the Intelligent Connectivity Innovation Research Center at Intel China Research Institute, said: "The porcelain cup is just its shape. Because it can integrate many sensors on the IO board, users can use it as a state monitor and a small gateway in the home." Integration on Edison Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

The smart porcelain cup is a reference implementation device, and its powerful features are backed by Intel's newly released Edison. Edison is a class development board product announced by Intel at CES 2014. It is only SD card size, but it has powerful performance and rich expansion. In September of this year, Edison was officially released at IDF in San Francisco. This event was the first time it was shown in China.

Edison is a product born with a halo. Too much to describe it, I want to pick a part to make everyone have a more intuitive impression. Edison began to incubate at the China Research Institute. Among the people who have spoken with the research institute, this is a plug-and-play mini computer that can make any physical device smart, and its market is not limited to makers. Wearable, adaptable in the Internet of Things; later the project was moved to the new equipment division in the United States, which was established and managed by Intel CEO Ke Zaiqi, who likes to call the makers of the company to lead every big Edison. The event; then officially appeared in Shanghai, and the pioneers of the present are also highly valued.

Such a high evaluation is due to the head. A long time ago, personal products need to start from the chip selection, design development board, adapter driver, hardware prototype, you need to take the software environment, development functions. The whole process is long and complicated, and almost all of them can be done. The emergence of open source hardware such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino is a turning point. They greatly simplify the hardware design process. Arduino-like boards have computing, storage, expansion and software environments. Instead of redesigning the core board, you only need to complete other Part of it. In terms of functional development, it is also simple because of the open environment of open source. Edison is similar to the Arduino development board, but it is not the same. It achieves a fairly high level of balance in performance, size and integrity.

Robopeak founder, also a pioneering creator of Chen Shikai, believes: "The current open source manufacturing field is somewhat like the mobile phone era. Its own development board is similar to feature phones, most of which are weak; Raspberry Pi, Arduino is similar to the initial smartphone, with The unified platform has different performances; Edison is somewhat like the original iPhone, and its performance has reached a singularity." He and DFRobot founder Ye Wei also said: "Edison's advantage is that the performance is complete, users rarely need to do this again. And worry, you just have to worry about software and features."

However, it is not easy to worry about the software part. This is actually an ecological construction. From Edison's compatibility with Arduino, Arduino is a software platform that defines hardware specifications (ARM, x86). The core is the massive project practice contributed by the makers. You can use Arduino's existing code to achieve Most ideas. Edison is a hardware platform, Intel does not care about software, Edison is compatible with several development environments including Arduino, it cares about the x86 core inside.

Intel hopes that everyone can develop features on x86, whether it is Arduino or other environments, which will enable the x86 ecosystem to be built on makers, wearables, and the Internet of Things, as well as with its IoT strategy. Edison is a force on the product level, and how to make more makers use it later will be a test of Intel. After all, this service object is very different.

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