Le 2013-06-21 03:32, Michael Schnell a écrit : > I don't understand why RPI (still) gets so much interest. > > A friend of mine just bought two BeagleBone "Black" boards for € 38.- (+VAT) > each. With the extremely versatile and well supported TI 1 GHz chip (that is > taken from TI's "AM..." series of devices for "embedded" use instead of for > "cellphone" use), with > 512 MB RAM and additional "internal SD-Card", and with a HDMI socket. > > He is up to try to install and develop with FPC/Lazarus ASAP. (Please com > back with any question on that behalf, I'm going to forward them.) > > I definitively would use this board for my future "embedded" projects. > > -Michael
In the US it is $45 each plus shipping. Tax is added if you order from the same state. For someone who doesn't have the money for an HDMI monitor, it does have a RCA connector for NTSC (or PAL) video. It has access to GPIO but so does the BeagleBone so the only thing I can see that would have some value would be for those who cannot afford to buy a decent computer monitor or don't care how bad the picture can be. I got one of those to see what the big fuzz was about. If I had to choose between the two, it would not be my choice. An odroid is much superior (2G of RAM). While on vacation in Québec I tried it out on a 50 inches HD TV. I was able to play movies with it, using Funtoo Linux. If you want hard disk the Mele A2000G might be a better choice, it has 1G of RAM, a connector for sata hard disk and includes wifi support plus more. I was able to create gentoo on it with no problem. It is not as nice to play video as the odroid which has a 4 cores arm device. Michel -- For Linux Software visit http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
