BeagleBone Black Wireless

Post by errantspark » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 10:45 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

pasbesoin wrote: post #9

OT, sort of, but a while back I saw one of these... "Pi-like" boards that had two Ethernet ports. It also had significantly more horsepower. I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform. P.S. It would be great if it also had decent on-board wireless for e.g. making a portable hardware firewall device.

seriously? (seriously seriously)? It depends on if you're okay with the chinese having a backdoor, at the firmware level. (to the tune of '//gotroot!!' in the source code, and dropping to root.) if you're okay with it, you have a LOT more options than if you aren't. perhaps if we start having dedicated routers and networks for the backdoored insecure stuff they'll start realizing that at the end of the day they're be…

Post by khedoros » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 10:48 PM UTC

Gibbon1 wrote: post #16

jwatte wrote: post #4

The BeagleBone was great when it first came out. Then the Raspberry Pi came out, and has a bigger community, higher performance, and lower price. Compared to the RPi 3, the BBBW seems like ... too little, too late?

Does the RPi3 still require an SSD Card for the file system? Edit: A warning about the TPS65217C on the BBB. The power supply needs to come up in (I think 50ms) or it'll fail to boot.

Post by sspiff » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 10:49 PM UTC

errantspark wrote: post #37

faragon wrote: post #30

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The board SoC quality is very good. However, it can not compete with e.g. the CHIP SoC board [1], which costs just 9 USD + shipping with similar specs (I have two CHIP running 24/7 without any additional cooling, running rock solid -even in summer, at 35-40º C indoor-). The only thing that would make me consider buying the BeagleBone Black Wireless is the two built-in microcontrollers ("PRU" processors [2]), for real…

Unfortunately even though I 'bought' a CHIP some 6 months ago I have yet to actually receive it. It's very easy to source a BBB. Hopefully in the future thy become more available. Though I fear that will come with an increase in price.

Post by hackcasual » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 10:56 PM UTC

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #32

mintplant wrote: post #25

The link at the bottom goes to https://beagleboard.org/wireless which isn't working for me, but https://beagleboard.org/black-wireless works. Mouser lists the price as $68.75 and element14 as $99.25; neither has any stock yet. There are hardware design source files on https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-black-wireless , including a PDF schematic: https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-black-wireless/raw... w…

Can it be that those prices are imaginary until there's stock? It seems like a nice board (I have a old BBB, with ethernet, and it's solid), but the CHIP [1] gets you wifi and BT for $9... 1: https://getchip.com/pages/chip

Post by ams6110 » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 11:01 PM UTC

fnj wrote: post #11

CaptSpify wrote: post #8

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What kind of OS do you typically use with the BB? I know the RPI has noobs/rasbian, but is there something comparable for the BB?

Plain un-customized Debian is what it comes with. Debian and Ubuntu are both popular, but you can run almost any distro.