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Oh please no. It is a terrible design to work with, the screw holes were put where they fit between wire traces, so random, and they don't provide sufficient s

by dade_ 13y ago

Oh please no. It is a terrible design to work with, the screw holes were put where they fit between wire traces, so random, and they don't provide sufficient support for the board under the GPIO header (or anywhere else) Then there are the connectors on every side of the board and the lack of a proper power connector (no DC jack). USB power supply caused issues consume most of the forums for the thing. The Pi proved there is a demand for a simple PC at this price point, there are now several products that are much better and offer a lower total cost (once accessories are factored in) with many more on the way.

alexcroox 13y ago
What are the best recommendations?
- dade_ 13y ago
  In my experience, the BeagleBone Black is much better all around. A few key reasons: a proper power supply connection, far more GPIO interfaces for connecting lights, sensors etc (raspberry pi has far fewer), 8 PwM outputs (pi has 1), 8 analog inputs (pi has none). From a cost point of view, you need to buy an SD card for a Pi, beaglebone has 2GB onboard and a far faster bus so booting and application performance is vastly better. If you add up all of the costs to put a project together (analog to digital converters, PWM breakout boards) + SD card, the pi actually costs more. That said, the pi does have 2 USB ports and BBB has 1, so that is a downside for some scenarios. Technical documentation of the BBB is a world better than pi. 4 mounting holes at each corner and all io interfaces at 2 opposite ends of the board which make a Much better form factor as well. There are more, but those the the main ones that come to mind. I hope that helps.
lelandbatey 13y ago
With you mentioning better alternatives, could you list or link to a list of these better alternatives?
- Lerc 13y ago
  Well there are these, Some better, some worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_comp... I have a cubieboard-2 with a Allwinner A20 (dual cortex-A7 mali 400mp2). Marginally larger, with sata, onboard flash, also LVDS and vga available from the pin headers.

by dade_ 13y ago

alexcroox 13y ago

What are the best recommendations?

dade_ 13y ago
In my experience, the BeagleBone Black is much better all around. A few key reasons: a proper power supply connection, far more GPIO interfaces for connecting lights, sensors etc (raspberry pi has far fewer), 8 PwM outputs (pi has 1), 8 analog inputs (pi has none). From a cost point of view, you need to buy an SD card for a Pi, beaglebone has 2GB onboard and a far faster bus so booting and application performance is vastly better. If you add up all of the costs to put a project together (analog to digital converters, PWM breakout boards) + SD card, the pi actually costs more. That said, the pi does have 2 USB ports and BBB has 1, so that is a downside for some scenarios. Technical documentation of the BBB is a world better than pi. 4 mounting holes at each corner and all io interfaces at 2 opposite ends of the board which make a Much better form factor as well. There are more, but those the the main ones that come to mind. I hope that helps.

lelandbatey 13y ago

With you mentioning better alternatives, could you list or link to a list of these better alternatives?

Lerc 13y ago
Well there are these, Some better, some worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_comp... I have a cubieboard-2 with a Allwinner A20 (dual cortex-A7 mali 400mp2). Marginally larger, with sata, onboard flash, also LVDS and vga available from the pin headers.