I'm curious what they will be able to hook up to one, and how it will be programmed - if you add a tiny amount of flash this could definitely be interesting, maybe have a dollar processor though.
The use cases for a student are more difficult to imagine - turn a light on an IO port is fun and somewhat education but you will need to do something more informative, like generate a coded signal, i.e. simulate an RFID chip (what I presume the commercial goal is here as well), but then vary based on some input(s)?
Its the same issue as with the current crop of low-cost computers - Raspberry Pi is great, but its most useful applications are due to its ethernet port and ability to drive a display, both of which drive up the price and board size.
It is a fair point - I just got excited about heading back to a few thousand transistors that we can understand idea. I doubt there are more than ten people who can reason about the latest things coming out of Intel.
One presumes that there must be some general purpose processor else this is just a RFID specific die (It does say ALU, PC and branch logic) so one assumes the idea is to be able to flash something some how. Then again, the cost of hooking up a die to flash it must exceed 1c so ... oh I am just talking in circles.
The use cases for a student are more difficult to imagine - turn a light on an IO port is fun and somewhat education but you will need to do something more informative, like generate a coded signal, i.e. simulate an RFID chip (what I presume the commercial goal is here as well), but then vary based on some input(s)?
Its the same issue as with the current crop of low-cost computers - Raspberry Pi is great, but its most useful applications are due to its ethernet port and ability to drive a display, both of which drive up the price and board size.