Yes, the Begal Board Black (BBB) has much lower general CPU performance compared to the Raspberry Pibut MUCH better IO performance especially with those on-chip PRUs.
But still if you have a garage to store the computer and AC mains available for power why care about a few cubic inches and 20 watts of power? Gene suggested an Intel Atom based PC. Those work. But I find that one can buy Dell server that has come off lease. These can come in 1U size chassis which is very compact. Prices are very low and you get a full computer with power, chassis and so on. Smaller than a tower but still typically space for a PCIe card. Newegg.com is a reliable source, a top their retailer but eBay might have lower prices. I've seen a usable rack mount server go for $100. My main development PC is a used HP workstation, 12-core Xeon, 64GB RAM Nvidia GPU for about $550. The leasing companies have thousand of these and they have to dump them into a market where world wide PC sales is declining year to year. On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 May 2018 11:16:29 jeremy youngs wrote: >>>> >>>>> Given my issues with this computer I have decided to stop beating a >>>>> dead horse. I'm going to rpi 3 this thing. >>>>> >>>> Oh, one other option is the Beagle Bone. This has the option of using > the PRU (programmable Realtime Unit) which is a 32-bit 200 MIPS > microcontroller to do step generation. The Machinekit fork of LinuxCNC > supports this. There is the CRAMPS board (disclaimer - I sell these) that > puts 6 small stepper drivers and other I/O right on top of the Beagle Bone > for a VERY compact system. You can net into the Bone with either Ethernet > or USB, or connect a keyboard and mouse via USB and a monitor via mini-HDMI. > > Jon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > 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 > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
