What did they leave out of the hardware? Hard to tell what to look for when it's not there.
Thanks for sharing your experience. -- eric On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:43 PM, NeonJohn <j...@neon-john.com> wrote: > Before anyone wastes his money on a BeagleBone, I suggest you join the > mailing list and read the hundreds of messages each day that pass > through, most of them citing problems, mostly with the Linux > implementation. > > Basically, the ancient implementation of Angstrom Linux is a POS. Just > barely enough code to be able to say, for example, that SPI works. It > does - sorta - but not well enough for any application where clock > timing or jitter matters. > > I had intended to embed the BB white in my next revision induction > heater. After several months of frustration and a considerable amount > of money to a kernel programmer to write drivers that actually worked, I > gave up. I could easily had a man-year in the application that I can do > bare metal in a few months. > > The thing that finally canned the BB for me was the short SD card life. > Even though the implementation uses a virtualized root file system, it > still writes to the SD card about once a second. The result is that > even industrial grade SD cards rarely live over a year. With the Black > they tried to address the problem by putting some NAND memory on board > but that only prolongs the problem and with components that are not > easily changed. > > A final negative is the support. The team member, a guy named Gerald, > who provides official support on the mailing lists is one of the most > hateful persons I've encountered on the net. No, I never personally had > an encounter with him but I daily shook my head in amazement that TI > would let such a person rep them. > > PS: Before you go to buy the Black, take a careful look at what all they > left off in an effort to compete with the Pi. > > PSS: I have a couple of Whites, one unopened, and a prototyping board > for sale. Cheap :-) > > John > > > > On 07/01/2013 11:14 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > Thanks. I didn't know there were two kinds. This is more useful for > only > > $5 more. > > > -- > John DeArmond > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > http://www.fluxeon.com <-- THE source for induction heaters > http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net > PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.