One show stopper I found with the RPi was the high probability of SD card corruption during power cycles (power failure without full OS shutdown first). Is the BeagleBone Black immune to this problem? The quoted ten second shutdown is good, but I'd like to have the flash image survive unforeseen power failures. If it handles those fine, then I'm ready to get excited about it.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Michael Haberler [mai...@mah.priv.at] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 7:47 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] "Black BeagleBoard: available at $45" (was LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.) just noted the Black BeagleBoard (sequel to the original) is becoming available with a RSP of $45 main differences to original BeagleBoard: - 512MB vs 256MB main memory - on-board HDMI - no cape required - on-board 2GB flash - the '3D graphics accelerator' suggests there is hope for OpenGL-based GUI's which are real lamers on the original BeagleBoard - modulo driver support; we'll see specs: http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/beaglebone/beaglebone.jsp at that price point I see no rational reasons left do dabble with a Raspberry Pi - Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
