Hi every one,
just like some feedback on how reliablethe FEZ boards are.
I am planning to develop some industrial products with the Panda or Cerbus40 but I would like the opion of long term users if they would do the same
They will be in production enviroment safley housed in metal boxes.
my main experiance is with PLC’s and they are crash proof (well almost)
I know most of the problems will be in my programing but I can’t afford to be battling hardware issues as well
they will be mainly used as dataloggers, protocol converters or a data interface between macines and the network
Depending on your feature requirements, if you’re considering that you might want support for NETMF 4.2 or later, the USBizi line is likely to stay in 4.1; and as Gus has said before, that’s actually a good thing for commercial developers who don’t want/need the change and want a stable platform. You may however need to do custom boards, or custom runs of Pandas as GHI may not have them readily available moving forward.
The Cerberus family (inc cerbuino, cerb40) are 4.2 boards and are open source, so the whole firmware is available for you to optimise if you wish. GHI have done a fantastic job of building out the capability, but that has been somewhat of a lag in the earlier days (and hasn’t quite hit full release yet).
There’s also the G120 which will be the new mainstream module that GHI will have as one of their flagship “Premium” offers.
Lots to think about in your case, just on selecting the device.
Now my other piece of advice is that the GHI guys love to talk to commercial designers, and you will likely get great stories about what their commercial products are in use in the field; unfortunately most of us here are likely to tell you how reliable the one or two devices are that we have in our garage, sprinkler system, tweeting potplant etc, which are probably less than “inductrial”
