BeagleBone Black: The Sub-$50 ARM Linux Board

[wpoely86]

Would be nice if Michael or someone made a table of the good and bad sides of all these ARM boards. There is one wikipedia page, but it's terribly lacking. People really should stop buying Raspberries. They're legacy crap.

http://iqjar.com/jar/an-overview-and...cro-computers/

[Kenzu]

The beaglebone is for sure not for desktop use. But is perfekt for robotics, cnc, 3d printer and other project where you need realtime control. That's where the two PRU's come to life and shine.
See http://blog.machinekit.io/p/hardware-capes.html for a long list of capes for cnc/3D print control.

[caligula]

Would be nice if Michael or someone made a table of the good and bad sides of all these ARM boards. There is one wikipedia page, but it's terribly lacking. People really should stop buying Raspberries. They're legacy crap.

[c117152]

This is a cheap ARMv7 embedded development board. I suppose I would have been disappointed too if I were going into it looking for a mini PC.

The reason you have so many single core boards despite them being slower, is that hard real-time multi-core scheduling is pretty tough and rarely useful. There are just not too many ways around the serial execution of: Take sensor input -> Filter -> Compute -> Output to storage \ display.

More so, An extra core that is hardly ever used is a power-drain for people that are interested in running off a battery.

Still, regardless of reasoning, it leads to the same conclusion: Buy a different board if you're looking into running something more Desktop'y.

[wpoely86]

GPIO

The Beaglebone black has ~65 GPIO pins, which makes it very interesting. You can use it to control anything you want. There's an easy javascript library to control the pins from within the browser.

Speed is not the goal of this board.

[[Knuckles]]

Well, at least it's ARMv7. That ARMv6 on the Pi is getting pretty long in the tooth...

[samdraz]

BBB

BBB tries maintain both prespectives like electronic kits(Arduino...) and embedded development (UDOO, inte baytrail kit, Raspberry Pi)

A10-OLinuXino-LIME is a nice alternative too.

[libv]

Then there is the olimex lime. Costs about 30EUR, uses an Allwinner A10, which has a Mali, and an actual community behind it. It has hdmi, ethernet, SATA, and tons of other connections on the 0.5 pitch headers on the board it self.

Oh, and it is full OSHW.

[libv]

Then there is the olimex lime. Costs about 30EUR, uses an Allwinner A10, which has a Mali, and an actual community behind it. It has hdmi, ethernet, SATA, and tons of other connections on the 0.5 pitch headers on the board it self.

[AJSB]

You should have compared it with the RPi...