I think the advantages you find are the EHCI USB host controller with hub and DSP. The DSP has some interesting binary loads, including some acceleration for depth-finding cameras. There's also a good amount of documentation for use with tools like Matlab, but I believe that's probably a bit beneath your personal experience level.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > currently culling all my eval boards, and i have a BB-xM (rev C) i > haven't even looked at in over a year. given that the current BB Black > is enough to keep me plenty busy, and with the upcoming BB-X15, is > there much value in a BB-xM strictly from a playing around point of > view, educationally speaking? > > the one thing about it that *is* nice is the JTAG header for > experimenting with JTAG debugging, but beyond that, does it bring > anything to the table i don't/won't already have with newer dev kits? > (off topic, i can ask the same thing about my pandaboard ES, which > also has sat unused in a drawer for quite some time.) > > anyway, thoughts on the BB-xM? > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
