> > *As a wise man once said, "If you don't have anything constructive to say, > don't speak".*
I do not think I could have put it better myself. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:16 AM, SimGQ <garymquig...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for that constructive comment William, very grown up. I'll bet > my European arse is a lot smaller than your American butt... Its a bit like > this thread, one of the first I read about BBB > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/hermans/beagleboard/951nWp_Jcnc/ZZV0GPwB3z8J > Eye opening, anyone asks a question or queries anything and they get > flamed along the lines of "We developed this board for free and you expect > our knowledge for free" yet there is no option to get any knowledge other > than as you and other point out in that thread "Google". You guys seem to > be offended if someone doesn't want to use the command line vis ssh. You do > realise its 2015? > > We or any BBB newbie are not asking for our hands to be held, just a few > pointers. The work we did on the Arduino is now being packaged as open > source, thats a fully working implementation of CanOpen geared specifically > towards motor / servo control, it will save devs months of work. > > Anyway, I do understand the OS, no need for the snide superior attitude, > we are prototyping, you surely understand the concept? Spend little, > develop fast, then invest in custom PCB's etc. The BBB has a fairly > powerful CPU and CAN bus, it ticks a lot of boxes for us. We are a start up > not Microsoft or Tesla, FFS (to paraphrase you). We were just a little > surprised to find basic issues with running off a 5v supply, has to be a > very clean supply, not just any 5V 2A supply. Basically we had a lot of > teething problems, which we have mostly had to work around, not solve. > > The issue of USB connectivity: its a lot more convenient for us to just > use USB for demo / mobility purposes, rather than having two cables plugged > into the BBB, ethernet & USB. For our fixed machines, I agree it's not a > problem, but for those using laptops, its a bit of a nuisance. > > Forgive me for complaining about the lack of documentation. Case in point: > Take the LSM303, finding coherent instructions was difficult. I bought > Derek Molloy's book and we are now tearing ahead, his instructions are > consistent. Infant we bought heaps of books (all I could find) on the BBB, > if you go through them, there are discrepencies even in basic set up. > > As a wise man once said, "If you don't have anything constructive to say, > don't speak". > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
