I agree. I personally thought a 1GB or 2GB RAM beaglebone would have found a good niche market. Seeed is producing something called the Beaglebone Green, but they have pretty much the same specs.
The real issue is that it is very cheap for new designers to launch single board computers. They are cheap enough that I can buy a new one fairly often and see how it differs. Most do about the same things for roughly the same price. TI, I think, has gone down the compute node route for higher end industrial companies with boards like the SBC-AM57x. That SBC is more expensive than a PC with a MESA card, so not much use in the range we are looking. Now, if I were aiming to build and sell commercial controllers, I would be looking at it closer, but for what I do, it is not much use. Critical mass matters in terms of companies sticking around. The margins are razor thin, so it is not very profitable for many of them. With no consumer or industrial anchor customers or market, most will fail. Charles Buckley On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:34 PM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> 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. > > John > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
