So then Jon Elson wrote: > If you haven't seen the Beagle Board, you should look into it. The Atom > boards still > come in about 20 W, the Beagle, WITH memory, SD card for "hard drive" > etc. runs > a guaranteed max of 3W. It has USB, one serial port, XDVI and some GPIO > pins > brought out. Runs Linux quite nicely. We would have used it on this > project, but RTAI > is not ready yet, so it can't run EMC2. It is a real contender for > battery-powered things. > For once I'm way ahead of you, Jon. Thanks to your many previous mentions of the Beagle Board, I did look into it. I liked what I saw, but I wanted a bit more headroom.
Then the BeagleBoard-xM was announced. How could I resist? According to an email I got from DigiKey just yesterday, the BeagleBoard-xM I ordered a while ago has been shipped and will arrive on my doorstep next week. It'll be more than good enough for what I have in mind and if you get your RTAI, It'll do fine for EMC2 as well. Actually, since my project is still in an early stage of design, I thought I'd get to know the BeagleBoard-xM by trying to compile and run EMC2 in pure simulation mode. I'll let you (all) know how that goes. Regards, Kent PS - It goes without saying that I've played with a few low-power VIA boards as well. They're ok but nothing special and they come at a premium price. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
