> > *Adafruit is also a good source of BBB parts and tutorials > <https://www.adafruit.com/category/75?gclid=CjwKEAjw2cOsBRD3xNbRp5eQxzYSJADZGYbzr3b7SK924RUB0eE7SegsUotk-6NzpIrehZ9pKqCdXBoC1qDw_wcB>. > *
You have to watch out for the Adafruit stuff though. Not that I need their info often, but when I did, I often find it incomplete, outdated ( as in wont work with current images ), or just flat out wrong. Also some of the hardware they sell marked for the beaglebone black is not exactly good "with" the beaglebone black. So again, you have to know something about the given hardware, before diving in. I chock this up to bad QA on Adafruit's behalf. e.g. they did no testing. A perfect example would be those cheap stubby wifi dongles. The beaglebone black sometimes will not like these as their radio is easily interfered with by the hdmi signal, and / or the board ground plane. If you want a really good learning resource. Check out DR. Derrek Molloy on youtube, or his blog. His book is supposed to be good as well, but I can not confirm as I did buy a hard copy, but have not read more than a few pages. With that said, I'm fairly certain it is a good book. Short of all that, google can be the best resource. *IF* one can learn to sift through all the "noise". Then knowing that 99% of the time, Linux is Linux . . . On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Bruce Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > The BBB is quite a different beast from Arduino (and there are many of > those; I assume you mean one of the simpler ones such as 'Uno'). Arduino is > simple to use, like a bicycle. It's great when that is what you need. BBB > is more like a powerful motorcycle - lots more capability but a step or ten > up in complexity... and learning curve. BBB has a pretty complete operating > system capability (I use Ubuntu 14.04) which the simpler Arduinos lack. BBB > has ethernet, HDMI, etc baked in which Arduino does not, and the simpler > Arduinos can't realistically add that. The more complex Arduinos can, but > then you get to about the same price point as BBB and you arguably have a > kludge. I don't mean any of this disparagingly, just that the "best" > solution for you depends... on what you are trying to do, and a lot of > other factors. Personally I like BBB for some applications where you want > Linux, HDMI, Python, etc, and Teensy 3.1 for smaller ones. They are all > tools - pick the one you like best or that fits your needs best. > > You'd hope, this being 2015 (and not 1995) that there would be some *standard > and portable* way to have hardware device drivers you could use anywhere. > There are some efforts in that area such as Pingo > <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pingo/0.1.9> but this issue is gnarly... > figure out a good solution and you'd have a great business. The use of I2C > and SPI as common hardware interfaces has helped a lot but there is a long > way to go until all sensors could be "plug and pray" on any hosting system. > > BBB also has the PRUs <http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_PRU_Notes> which seem > like a solution for any number of special realtime interface issues. And > the BBB community is pretty great too! Mr Kernal, Robert Nelson > <https://github.com/RobertCNelson?tab=activity>, and Mr Beagleboard > (Gerald Coley) and a ton of others are working hard to make BBB great. > Adafruit is also a good source of BBB parts and tutorials > <https://www.adafruit.com/category/75?gclid=CjwKEAjw2cOsBRD3xNbRp5eQxzYSJADZGYbzr3b7SK924RUB0eE7SegsUotk-6NzpIrehZ9pKqCdXBoC1qDw_wcB> > . > > Welcome to the community! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
