Beta Testing the Arduino Tre
Notes from a Beta test of the first Arduino with a web based editor
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Diy-Ha.com in 2015. Arduino never released the Tre, but it did integrate many of the Tre’s features — especially the web editor — into future Arduino boards.
Some time in 2015, Arduino will be launching a new board known as the Tre. Thanks to Michael Shiloh at Arduino, I got my hands on an early development version of the board, and got to participate in Arduino’s official Tre Beta testing. The Tre has some promising applications for home automation, which I’ll get into below.
As I’ve explained in previous posts, prototyping boards like Arduinos and Raspberry Pis are fantastic for home automation. You can hook up a Raspberry Pi to everything from your alarm system to your sprinklers, and do tons of neat things with these systems.
In the past, though, these board designs had a flaw. The Raspberry Pi, with its graphical Linux operating system, USB peripheral support, etc. is wonderful for higher-level computing, where you need to be able to do networking, write stuff in Python, etc. Arduino…
