BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by tdrnd » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

BeagleBone Black Wireless
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Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by ers35 » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

See also "A BeagleBone on a Chip" for discussion about the Octavo Systems OSD3358 system-in-package used on this board: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697719

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by akanet » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

I've been running a tor relay on the original beaglebone black for a couple years now and have been very satisfied. Would have LOVED the wifi model back then.

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by jwatte » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:15 PM UTC

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?

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by revelation » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

Interesting that Texas Instruments Raspberry (you know, TI is to BeagleBoard as Broadcom is to RPi) would use a 3rd party SoC. I guess it still uses a AM335x internally so it's a tossup for them.

Would have wished they had updated the AM335x to one of the beefier Sitaras, they are falling somewhat behind if only in clock rate.

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by revelation » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

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?

I guess it depends on what you are using them for. If I want a smartphone, yeah use the RPi, if you need something that can do reliable precise timing, no amount of extra ARM cores can replace the PRUs in the BB.

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by dublinben » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

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?

The BeagleBone Black has better Linux support out of the box, doesn't require non-free firmware to boot, and is itself an Open Source Hardware design.

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by CaptSpify » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

revelation wrote: post #6

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?

I guess it depends on what you are using them for. If I want a smartphone, yeah use the RPi, if you need something that can do reliable precise timing, no amount of extra ARM cores can replace the PRUs in the BB.

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?

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by pasbesoin » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:28 PM UTC

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.

Re: BeagleBone Black Wireless

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Post by CocoaGeek » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 9:36 PM UTC

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?

The BeagleBone does power management which the RPI doesn't. It's unfortunate that they didn't take this revision opportunity to boost the RAM and switch to USB3. IMHO.