Something not mentioned (probably because it wasn't even a little bit successful) was the Intel Edison. This was brought out as Intel's tiny answer to the Raspberry Pi, but really should have been presented as a rapid prototyping platform. As it turned out, hacker friendly companies like Adafruit and Microcenter ended up with a glut of Edison modules and expansion units that were sold for almost nothing. It ran Yocto Linux, which was far less able than it is today, and so just getting your IDE set up was extremely difficult for the home gamer. But it was such a small board with a lot of potential. Shame that Intel didn't go after the educational and hobby markets in any big way.
I did see one product that used the Edison module: A carrier board for the CUBE drone flight controller that could accept an Edison for a companion computer. As far as I know no applications came out of that hardware. I believe it probably inspired the Raspberry Pi Foundation to introduce the compute modules.
Something not mentioned (probably because it wasn't even a little bit successful) was the Intel Edison. This was brought out as Intel's tiny answer to the Raspberry Pi, but really should have been presented as a rapid prototyping platform. As it turned out, hacker friendly companies like Adafruit and Microcenter ended up with a glut of Edison modules and expansion units that were sold for almost nothing. It ran Yocto Linux, which was far less able than it is today, and so just getting your IDE set up was extremely difficult for the home gamer. But it was such a small board with a lot of potential. Shame that Intel didn't go after the educational and hobby markets in any big way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Edison
I did see one product that used the Edison module: A carrier board for the CUBE drone flight controller that could accept an Edison for a companion computer. As far as I know no applications came out of that hardware. I believe it probably inspired the Raspberry Pi Foundation to introduce the compute modules.