BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
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BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
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Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#2Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#3Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)
Do you have a power meter by any miracle? The main advantage I see to this over the Raspberry Pi (for my application) is its spartan power usage.
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#4I got three of these. I need controllers like I need a hole in my head but hey, they are really really cute. A bit of trouble with the release that was on them but downloaded and burned in the latest and they were fine. Sadly no, I have not yet put them on a meter but will when they are near such a setup.
Something that sets these apart from the Raspberry Pi are that they full of easy access I/O, and two the Cloud9 IDE.
It is insanely fun to write javascript code in a browser talking to this thing wirelessly and have it do stuff. For me who likes to do mobile robots this is the really really great. I've got one of the old Rovio telepresence [1] things (its a mobile base with a Web cam and a WiFi link) and this board is going to be its new brain. The angstrom distro on it is very similar to the distro that the Chumby came with only a bit more stuff (Python, yay!).
The HDMI output is ok (its not 1080p so don't even think you're going to do XMBC on this thing) but nothing to write home about.
One USB port so get a hub, but on the plus side you can provide you own 5V power supply and that means you don't need a powered hub (unless you're trying to run high power peripherals). The Logitech Unifying receiver works well if you want to add a keyboard and mouse in one plug. (Now if that Unifying Reciever did WiFi it would kick butt)
All in all I think its a really good board. Nice mix of features. It will put pricing pressure on the Arduino Due I suspect.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/WowWee-Rovio-Enabled-Robotic-WebCam/dp...
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#5Great to see that ArchLinux ARM already has support for the BeagleBone Black [1]. I have a Hackberry A 10 that I'm very happy with, but this looks like a great product as well. I'm definitely tempted to go for this rather than the Hackberry next time.
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#6Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)
Do you have a power meter by any miracle? The main advantage I see to this over the Raspberry Pi (for my application) is its spartan power usage.
No I don't have a power meter. I know the Black works on a USB 2.0 port of my laptop and my desktop too, so it uses less than 500mA. From my experience working with Ti's stuff, they are often pretty good about power consumption though.
My main problem with the Pi is that it is very finicky... plug a USB device in, and it dies/connection drops and all kinds of weird things happen. I have seen none so far on the Black.
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#7Great to see that ArchLinux ARM already has support for the BeagleBone Black [1]. I have a Hackberry A 10 that I'm very happy with, but this looks like a great product as well. I'm definitely tempted to go for this rather than the Hackberry next time. 1: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/beaglebone-black
archlinux arm is so baller
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#8Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)
Do you have a power meter by any miracle? The main advantage I see to this over the Raspberry Pi (for my application) is its spartan power usage.
if you haven't found an answer to this by monday, send me an email (notatoad-gmail) and i'll let you know. doing a power consumption test between beaglebone and beaglebone black is on my to-do list.
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#9I realise this is a different unit, but I tried the BeagleBoard-XM and trying to get it to display Ubuntu on my run-of-the-mill Sony TV was an exercise in frustration. The instructions for it were fairly opaque, and between relying on random shell scripts, random online build systems, and endless conf file changes, I never got it to work.
Plugging the Raspberry Pi in and having it display immediately on the TV almost brought tears to my eyes. Maybe the situation is improved for the BeagleBone?
Re: BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45
#10I got three of these. I need controllers like I need a hole in my head but hey, they are really really cute. A bit of trouble with the release that was on them but downloaded and burned in the latest and they were fine. Sadly no, I have not yet put them on a meter but will when they are near such a setup. Something that sets these apart from the Raspberry Pi are that they full of easy access I/O, and two the Cloud9 I…
Is the Ethernet PHY connected to the main processor over USB or something faster/more efficient? One of my biggest complaints about the Raspberry Pi is that the Ethernet is capped at a few dozen mbps, presumably due to constraints associated with USB.