On 11 Oct 2017, at 22:34, John Dammeyer wrote: >> It is from May 18th, 2013. >> >> They moved to Rev C of the beaglebone black in March 2014. They have not >> updated the black since then. Functionally, the page looks to still be >> ballpark. >> >> Personally, I think TI has dropped the black from their roadmap. I would >> hesitate to move to it at this point. You might want to look at the PINE64 >> boards. >> >> Charles Buckley > > I think that's why I'm disappointed. With the A/D and PRUs the Beagle was > so much better than the Pi. All the extra pins. But time moves on I guess. > > It's looking less and less like the Beagle will be controlling my Mill. > That's a shame; especially as I have an unused Rev C BBB here which I chose, some time ago, to buy in preference to the Pi2. Time moved on, and Pi2 became Pi3, which rather changed the game. I still think, as you do, that the BBB would make a nice controller. Especially having read Gene's account of the frustrations involved in getting a Pi3 to act as a LinuxCNC controller. I have several old computers here, but I much prefer putting a new computer in a new project machine. Even with a cheap main board, the cost is considerable by the time you add memory, rack mount case and PSU, swappable hard drives, etc. The BBB or anything like it which would work, would be a nice 'slim' way to go, for a change. I'm about to convert a small CNC lathe from a proprietary system to LinuxCNC and Mach3 (swappable drives) so that will be another big new computer, I guess. <sigh>.
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