Oh, and by the way, this hardware and community is 100% open source. If you've got a problem that us supposedly crapper community helpers can help you with. Go download the schematics, or source code and figure it out for yourself. Unles of course as I suspect you're not a real engineer, but some kid who just wants to use his rPI as a settop gimmick for his tv . . .
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:36 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah well those Rabbit semi boards actually are not bad, its the software > stack you're forced to use with them that is horrible. Wulf and I built an > ethernet connected lead acid charge controller using one of these and the > crappy compiler you're forced to use introduced random bugs that where hard > to track down. On top of that Rabbit semi community help was terrible. > Snobs who think because you're a developer that you should instantly know > everything about embedded hardware. Thus my experiences with the > "community" which was actually a single person / engineer at rabbit semi > was a very bad experience. > > Then ill tell you what. The rPI is a toy. It does a few small things well. > But for a true embedded board, in most cases it is garbage. The actual > physical engineering could even stand to use some work. Such as the surface > mounted full sized sdcard . . . terrible, terrible design decision. If you > can not figure out why, then you're not much of an engineer. > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:42 PM, John Syne <john3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For someone who has been "working with products like this for 18 years", >> you would think he would be able to help himself by now. Yet he still >> thinks he is smarter than the rest of us, advising us to “leave this BBB”. >> Well, Karl, there are many more smarter people here who think BBB is way >> better than Raspberry Pi because of the open source hardware design, unlike >> the proprietary hardware design of the Raspberry Pi. You cannot even by the >> processor used on the Raspberry Pi. I think you have completely missed the >> value offered by the BeagleBoard organization. In addition, the BBB >> includes two PRU processors who have a cycle time of 5ns which is very >> important for realtime control functions. Cannot do that with the Raspberry >> Pi. Clearly you have no clue, so your advise has no value here. >> >> Regards, >> John >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 22, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Karl Easterly <k...@bigtexansoftware.com> >> wrote: >> >> to be a bit more nice about my grandious statement that the BBB is dead.. >> here is a bit of history. >> >> I have been working with products like this for about 18 years. Small >> form factor boards like the basic stamps and zworld jack rabbits to todays >> rasp pi's and bbb's and the banana pros and such and such >> >> the raspberry has a great community.. and the BBB doesnt. I have had >> numerous instances where i was using the BBB and found an issue and there >> are only crickets sounding on google. >> >> I am not saying the BBB is a bad board as it is clearly a nice peice of >> engineering.. i am saying the product BBB will pass into the past while the >> rasp pi will persist. >> >> id advise you leave this BBB behind as it has no value looking toward the >> future. this ship has sunk. >> >> and thats a bummer in many ways. >> On Mar 22, 2016 7:27 PM, "ChrisB" <cbura...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> My experience has been quite different. Pretty much all the progress >>> I've made with the BBB was enabled by various forum posts and code >>> repositories. And every time I think I have an original question or >>> observation, a little searching online finds the answer or a similar >>> developer experience. It's not easy getting things to work some of the >>> time, but tenaciousness pays off for the most part. >>> >>> Anyway, thanks to everyone who's spent the time to post on forums and >>> share their code! Hopefully, I will have something to contribute in the >>> near future and can start paying you all back. >>> >>> Chris Burak >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 4:58:27 PM UTC-6, Karl Easterly wrote: >>>> >>>> Ya.. I didn't ask for help.. as you noticed :) >>>> >>>> The point is the community for the beagle board is so sparse self help >>>> is not an option. A sparse community around this type of product equals a >>>> dead product. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day < >>>> rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Quoting Robert Nelson <robert...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 20, 2016 2:28 PM, "Karl Easterly" <k.s.ea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's clear that the BBB is a dead product. There is no meaningful >>>>>>> >>>>>> resources for issues, and when the system simply won't 'reset from a >>>>>> new >>>>>> image from their site'... that's the last straw. >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mine are going in the trash and I will advise anyone everywhere to >>>>>>> do the >>>>>>> >>>>>> same. >>>>>> >>>>>> 'Last straw', I've don't remember you ever posting on here.. If it's >>>>>> only >>>>>> one and done for you, then there's no reason for me to waste time >>>>>> either.. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> how *dare* everyone not drop what they're doing ***right now*** and >>>>> solve my problem during the first weekend of march madness? >>>>> >>>>> rday >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- 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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