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Used beaglebone since it's out years ago, it's a great piece of hardware and kind of kicked off the open-source-software plus open source 32-bit-CPU DIY hardwar
by ausjke 10y ago
Used beaglebone since it's out years ago, it's a great piece of hardware and kind of kicked off the open-source-software plus open source 32-bit-CPU DIY hardware movement before everybody else.
Then clone was up everywhere, from RPI to Intel to many small shops in China etc, even Arduino started to add 32-bit CPU boards, price has remained to be low so far.
The only concern is that TI is not as active as before on its ARM-chip business, otherwise Beaglebones could have dominated the market instead of RPI series.
- joezydeco 10y agoDidn't anyone else out there have a PandaBoard? And TI was probably smart to exit OMAP for phones/tablets when they did. It's too hard to beat Apple/Samsung/Qualcomm in this space now. (The Sitara/AM335x on Beagle is just an OMAP without the video DSP)
- ausjke 10y agoyes I have all sorts of beaglebone families, including pandaboard, there are so many SBCs to choose these days around $50-ish, and many of them have usb-based wifi onboard. TI also was the first one to do mcu-wifi but it's so expensive it never got much market attraction, until ESP8266 came out which took the world by storm.
- rektide 10y agoThere were a not-insignificant number of companies who tried setting up build servers &c on PandaBoard & found the units failed fairly quick under any kind of sustained use. AFAIK BBB, although more limited, best I know remained reliable.