I 'd love to try this BeagleBone but its out of stock from which I live
(using element14 HK).
Dennis
Michel Catudal wrote:
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
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