Posted by j on April 24, 2013, 5:46 pm
This caught my attention:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/154100-beaglebone-black-raspberry-pi-and-arduino-on-a-single-board-for-just-45/2
Roughly, it is a faster version of a Raspberry Pi with an Arduino like
GPIO. And for $0 more than a Raspberry Pi.
I got my Raspberry Pi a week ago and I was blown away by the
possibilities of just that. And previously amazed at the Arduino.
Sensors and servos are so readily available and cheap that all kinds of
control projects are doable. There is already a huge amount of open
source code ready for the download. It's evolutionary and revolutionary
for small players like myself (and some of you guys!).
Jeff
Posted by Morris Dovey on April 26, 2013, 8:39 pm
On 4/26/13 9:41 AM, Neon John wrote:
> I'm designing our company's next generation induction heater around a
> BB White so I'm intimately familiar with the product. It is being
> sold as a general purpose system-on-a-board (SOB) but it is not. The
> embedded Linux is barely complete enough to run the Ethernet and
> generate a login prompt. For anything else plan on being a kernel
> hacker. I've had to hire a programmer to write a custom SPI port
> driver because the included one (which only uses 1 of the chip's 3
> ports) is barely functional.
I bought a BB White for my project and ended up shelving it in favor of
an Arduino Mega 2560 so as to have the I/O I wanted on-board. I wasn?t
keen on spending a lot of time kernel hacking and managed to get by with
rolling my own (minimal) clock and cooperative multitask scheduling
routines. You can see some of the C source at
http://www.iedu.com/Solar/LENR/Code.html
I wish I?d known that you needed an SPI driver because I have C code
here (written to talk to an X25650 EEPROM) that would have been fairly
easy for you to rework to suit your needs.
--
Morris Dovey
http://www.iedu.com
http://www.facebook.com/MorrisDovey
Posted by j on April 26, 2013, 11:24 pm
On 4/26/2013 4:39 PM, Morris Dovey wrote:
> On 4/26/13 9:41 AM, Neon John wrote:
>
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>
> I bought a BB White for my project and ended up shelving it in favor of
> an Arduino Mega 2560 so as to have the I/O I wanted on-board. I wasn?t
> keen on spending a lot of time kernel hacking and managed to get by with
> rolling my own (minimal) clock and cooperative multitask scheduling
> routines. You can see some of the C source at
The scheduling is very cool.
>
> http://www.iedu.com/Solar/LENR/Code.html
RaspPi isn't bad for GPIO:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5l185qxq9w5mzk/raspberry-pi-gpio-cheat-sheet.jpg
There is a lib that gives 8 PWM outs (shares a timer), I don't think you
needed that though.
On the other hand, logging and WiFi and having memory to burn (and
Python as a high level wrapper) is very cool and easy.
>
> I wish I?d known that you needed an SPI driver because I have C code
> here (written to talk to an X25650 EEPROM) that would have been fairly
> easy for you to rework to suit your needs.\
Jeff
>
Posted by j on May 13, 2013, 4:00 pm
On 4/24/2013 1:46 PM, j wrote:> This caught my attention:
>
>
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/154100-beaglebone-black-raspberry-pi-and-arduino-on-a-single-board-for-just-45/2
>
So, I hesitated and then bought a BBB.
It came loaded with Angstrom 3.8.6 and a few basics loaded on the eMMC.
I needed to buy a power USB hub and a micro HDMI adapter. Otherwise
getting to a desktop was painless. It boots into Gnome and has the
basics installed.
It runs much snappier than the Pi, (but I had the Pi on a class 8 SD).
The performance monitor on the BBB rarely shows 100% CPU, and the Pi
often did. It has a lot more chips on the board than the Pi, so things
like the ethernet aren't shared with the USB. All the needed hardware is
there.
With that said, working on the Pi, installing software and updating the
kernel is much easier on the Pi and Raspbian Wheezy. The Pi community
and support is better thought out. And, the BBB is very new and there
are some bugs and such.
I suppose if I moved to a different distro like Ubuntu this would be
better, but Angstrom seems a better match for tinkering.
The GPIO is mind boggling. I haven't gone cape shopping yet. I'm looking
for something simple.
Jeff
>
> Roughly, it is a faster version of a Raspberry Pi with an Arduino like
> GPIO. And for $0 more than a Raspberry Pi.
>
> I got my Raspberry Pi a week ago and I was blown away by the
> possibilities of just that. And previously amazed at the Arduino.
> Sensors and servos are so readily available and cheap that all kinds of
> control projects are doable. There is already a huge amount of open
> source code ready for the download. It's evolutionary and revolutionary
> for small players like myself (and some of you guys!).
>
> Jeff
> BB White so I'm intimately familiar with the product. It is being
> sold as a general purpose system-on-a-board (SOB) but it is not. The
> embedded Linux is barely complete enough to run the Ethernet and
> generate a login prompt. For anything else plan on being a kernel
> hacker. I've had to hire a programmer to write a custom SPI port
> driver because the included one (which only uses 1 of the chip's 3
> ports) is barely functional.