Short and Sweet BlueSteel-Basic and all other BlueSteel products are manufactured in the Richardson, Texas on site of Circuitco.
the benefits for BlueSteel products have been carefully considered to provide the follow benefits: * no restrictions on commercial usage * volume price discounts * Enable Third Party Software Vendors to provide commercial SDKs * all I/O is available on the expansion header as an OEM/ODM developer, the BeagleBone Black presents a great starting point, however it does present a number of obstacles, in that BeagleBoard.org has significant restrictions on the use of the BeagleBoard logo and the use of the board in commercial products: http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Terms_of_Use In addition, there a limited set of authorized distributors who can sell BeagleBone Black, and they are limited in the number of boards they can sell to a single customer. For example you can look at the Adafruit website: "*Limit 1 (one) per customer, orders cannot be combined."* http://www.adafruit.com/products/1876 Another aspect is that most OEM/ODM developers who are including the BeagleBone Black (in violation of the terms of use) want to have the full set of I/O on the expansion header so that they can implement their own features on a daughter board. It is far easier to add a feature you need on a daughter board, than to remove features you don’t need from the main board. This very same principle of commercial usage has already been recognized by Embest which has released their own version of a BeagleBone Black clone for the same target market. Logic Supply has a very good discussion of the issues: http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2014/05/15/new-embest-board-opens-door-for-beaglebone-black-projects/ On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:31:00 PM UTC-5, Bill Traynor wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:19 AM, William Hermans <yyr...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > From what I could gather from the article, these are embest ./ element14 > > boards. Kind of hard to read through as one part of the article seems > like > > it's implying one thing, where in another it seems to go another > direction. > > > > > > The board is produced by CircuitCo. It's a great little board with > just the right stuff removed to make it more palatable for some. I > like it a lot. > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, John Syn <john...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> From: William Hermans <yyr...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > >> Reply-To: "beagl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>" < > beagl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > >> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:17 PM > >> To: "beagl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>" < > beagl...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > >> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming > >> > >> Funny how these articles always seem to report stuff that's either > >> incorrect or not entirely accurate. > >> > >> I think the overlying information given by the site is nice to know ( > such > >> as new hardware being released ), but their actual write-ups are > nothing > >> more than FUD. The article you linked to had several points of > >> misinformation, such as the BBB's processor speed ( but somehow they > managed > >> to get it right in the table of board differences ). > >> > >> Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went > the > >> wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be > disabled > >> via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which really > wont > >> give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never miss. > >> > >> Looks like the same board as the BBB with the eMMC and HDMI chips not > >> populated. I’m sure Gerald & circuitco have analyzed the market > requirement > >> and this is what the market wants. If you have the numbers, I’m sure > they > >> will manufacture a batch with the eMMC populated or you could always > add it > >> yourself. > >> > >> > >> > >> Don't even get me started with "Angstrom is prefered by most / more > >> professional developers . . ." Because that is plain B.S. Also the > >> statement "Moving to the more user friendly Debian > >> . . ." Is fairly hilarious. Mainly because many long time users of > other > >> distro's seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of a more > >> traditional Linux distro like Debian. For the record though this > statement > >> is accurate as Debian actually has real / proper documentation. Where > >> Angstrom falls flat on its face > >> > >> I could go on, and on, but the fact is that "real professionals" are > going > >> to use what makes the most sense for their project. If they want small, > >> Angstrom is probably the last thing in their minds. QNX, or Busybox on > a > >> microkernel come to mind far ahead of anything else. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, John Syn <john...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/777154-beaglebone-sbc-goes-oem-com-version-coming > > >>> > >>> Interesting how we are the last to know about this! > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> John > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > >>> --- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> "BeagleBoard" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >>> email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "BeagleBoard" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> -- > >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "BeagleBoard" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "BeagleBoard" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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