Hi William. I'm a big fan of the bbb. I like its wide range of io, the headers that make it stable when mounted on a cape and its price point. It also uses a CPU that I could put into my own design, unlike the Broadcom soc on the pi2 that I guess you need some magic handshake and millions of units to get access to.
I see the x15 aimed at a different market due to cost and features. That's a good question though. Who is the x15 intended for? Why choose the x15 over say a minnowboard max? I'd like to help keep the bbb more on par with the cpu power of the pi2. Basically a bbb v2 with a multi core cpu, and maybe 1gb of ram as its leading features at a similar price point. I'm not sure if TI has any sitara quad cores in the works that might be candidates. I've done some digital circuit design, board bring up, uboot, etc. I'd be willing to help in any effort if circuitco, Gerald etc were interested. Plus the company I work for is using the bbb in a design and we could benefit from another CPU or three. Chris On Saturday, April 25, 2015, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > There are boards out there with SATA on them that cost less than the BBB > does right now. That are around the same size. > > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware > > That is one. Robert even has build instructions for it . . . but drivers > still seemed to be in infancy last i looked. > > Anyway Chris you should be more precise on what you want. If you want any > serious feedback. Which crowd do you think benefits from using a BBB but > not the X15 ? Are we talking pure cost, or something else ? Granted, I'm > also expecting the cost of the X15 to be out of the casual hobbyist range. > Which may have been by design ? > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Chris Morgan <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Hi Graham. >> >> I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind >> of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn't something we'd >> use (we are ok with sd or emmc for these limited uses), audio codec is >> interesting but wonder if that also increases cost for people that >> don't need it, same with the expansion connector, 2GB of ram vs. 1GB >> etc. >> >> I think a BBB v2 would be a lower performance/capability point than >> say the x15, something more price/performance in line with the Pi2 >> than a minnowboard. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Graham <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >> >> > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15 >> > >> > == >> > >> > -- >> > 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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','beagleboard%[email protected]');> >> . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','beagleboard%[email protected]');> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','beagleboard%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
