[juneau-lug] Re: Raspberry Pi
- From: Myron Davis <myrond@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:18:06 -0900
Right now my beaglebone is running a small ASIC bitcoin miner over it's bus
(it has a lot of room on its bus; more so than the raspberry PI). So it
has an assigned purpose and is busy working!
Interesting about the Quark; it is x86 @400mhz, 256MB of DRAM. I don't
see how many GPIO ports it has though. That is what is nice about the
rasppi and beaglebone is there is a lot of cape's available where you can
plugin FPGA's and do various I/O without going through USB.
I think the reviewer didn't have a SD card available with an OS to marked
down the "ease of use"; not that it matters TOO much as these are hobbyist
boards anyway. Overall they are pretty close, rasppi is a bit cheaper;
beaglebone has a bit higher power usage and some more processing power.
But whatever works; they are both neat little boards!
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jamie <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Myron - I've seen the Beaglebone demo'd at a Maker Faire and they looked
> pretty cool. Are you just experimenting with yours, or do they have an
> assigned purpose or a project in the works?
>
> Looks like Intel wants into the party also with their $70 Galileo:
>
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/530771/intel_open-source_galileo_computer_sale_us69_90/?utm_source=www.computerworld.com.au&utm_medium=related&utm_content=article_bottom
>
> The Raspberry Pi I got to play with was the $35 model B. That's the
> bare board price, but for $5 more you get a 8G SD card with 6 different
> OS trials. So my experience was better than the reviewer you cite. I
> needed to plug in USB keyboard and mouse, video (lacking an HDMI
> monitor, I used the analog to TV -yuck), and a micro USB power source
> (phone, tablet charger). It booted right up and asked which OS I wanted
> to try (Raspian) and then re-booted to it. Hold down the shift key
> during boot to try a different OS. Plugged into the network (wired or
> wifi), I could SSH or VNC into it and get decent video, not the analog
> TV. The wifi USB adapter only needed the wifi password and immediatly
> connected. Switching USB devices took a little planning because there
> are only 2 ports and when I pulled the keyboard, it re-booted. If you
> need several USB devices, a small powered hub can easily overcome this,
> but once online it ran fine as headless with only the power and wifi
> plugged in. So I beg to differ with the reviewer who said it was
> difficult to setup.
>
> -Jamie
>
>
> On 11/01/2013 03:43 PM, Myron Davis wrote:
> > Try out the beaglebone black, it's very similar to raspberry pi.
> > Here's a URL about both of them:
> >
> >
> http://makezine.com/magazine/how-to-choose-the-right-platform-raspberry-pi-or-beaglebone-black/
> >
> > (I've got a couple of beaglebone's and I really like them)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jamie <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Had the chance to play around with a Raspberry Pi recently. Loaded the
> >> Debian derivative called Raspian into its 512k memory. It used a 8G SD
> >> card for storage and was pretty impressive for its size. Well, maybe not
> >> compared to a smartphone. Still it could run a web server, browser, 5mp
> >> camera, wifi, email. It could do some real work. Low powered and quiet
> >> too.
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