At $49 vs. $35, I would take the new BeagleBone Black any day over the Raspberry Pi. The processor is from TI (with long processor experience) instead of Broadcom. The processor also has great peripherals for motion control (not present in the Broadcom chip). The only thing the RPi has going for it is volume production, but that could fizzle very quickly if the fad passes or Broadcom drops the chip. After all, the 100K volumes of the RPi are not large for a commodity supplier like Broadcom. The fact that a turn-key LinuxCNC image is already out for the BeagleBone is the clincher. Thank you again to Michael and helpers.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Jon Elson [el...@pico-systems.com] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:55 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone LinuxCNC starterkit: ready-to-run SD card image Michael Haberler wrote: > As promised, I have prepared an SD card image for the beaglebone ready-to-run. > Fantastic work, many thanks! > partition 2 - ext4, size 3.8GB or greater, > In a number of places, ext4 has been reported to be associated with early failure of SD cards. I'm not sure whether to believe this, but I have seen so many reports, I worry about it. Is there a consensus about BeagleBone vs. Raspberry Pi? I have been thinking about redoing my old BeagleBoard EPP converter for one of these boards, but didn't want to start until it was decided which way to go. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
