No.  The one to use is
amazon.com/dp/B00K53CQK4
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K53CQK4/ref=psdc_1048424_t1_B00L7AWOEC>
It is $70 and takes arduino spec'd shields.  These kind of products are
good if building a portable battery powered device.

But really, a $50 ITX size Atom board is even more powerful at less cost.



On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Steve Traugott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone tried an (Intel) Edison yet?  It's an x86 machine, and comes in
> at $100 if you add the arduino-pinout carrier board to give you all the I/O
> pins:  https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13097
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 04 May 2017 13:14:07 Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> > > On 05/03/2017 11:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 03 May 2017 23:44:02 Jon Elson wrote:
> > > >> On 05/03/2017 09:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >>> The killer in the beaglebone soup is the cost of the "capes".
> > > >>> You've over $200 plus psu's etc before it can turn 2 motors at the
> > > >>> same time.
> > > >>
> > > >> Umm, the CRAMPS board is $79.95, and I sell the 8825 drivers
> > > >> for $5 each, but I get them from China for about $1.30
> > > >> each.
> > > >
> > > > The 8825 does what?  I need to take another look at your site I
> > > > guess.
> > >
> > > 2 A 35 V stepper driver.
> >
> > Whereas I'm at 43 volts and 5 amps on x(8 wire motor in parallel), 65V
> > and around 3.5A on z.
> >
> > And fixing to add another 20 volts to x, its tapped out at about 40 ipm.
> > Fairly small fine threaded ball screw.
> >
> > > >> The BeagleBone is $55,
> > > >
> > > > And how many cores & how fast is its arm?
> > >
> > > I think it is only one core, 1 GHz.  Works fine for
> > > Machinekit/LinuxCNC control of Cartesian machine, but ssh -X
> > > connection from a machine with a screen is noticeably slower
> > > than an X86 PC with directly-connected screen.
> >
> > Where this pi has 4 cores, 64 bit, and is running at 1.2GHz
> > And twice the memory.  Needs more yet.  So I think I'll stick with it
> > unless this last experiment fails. dd is still munching away at creating
> > a clone of the only u-sd that will still boot it.
> >
> > Then 2 boxes of deck stuff just walked up and plopped themselves down on
> > the front deck, which I am suspecting I'll need to modify the gazebo as
> > its too tall to fit under the roof overhang. Might wind up ripping out
> > some greenery and extending the deck, outward by a foot or so and east 5
> > feet as it will block the front door otherwise.  Fun and games with
> > 2x8's for framing and 2x4's for flooring.
> >
> > If it ever happens. Dee said no.  So I've spent the afternoon assembling
> > the deck furniture, which came in flatish pieces. Got the corner chair
> > piece and 2 chairs, but still have 2 in the box when it started a light
> > rain, and my back said enough already. So dinner is warming in the
> > microwave.
> > >
> > > The Beagle Bone has 2 PRU processors (200 MHz real time
> > > 32-bit CPUs) that Charles Steinkuehler set up the framework
> > > for so that LinuxCNC can do fast stepping, PWM and encoder
> > > counting.  Not quite FPGA performance, but WAY faster than
> > > software stepping.  So, that relieves the ARM CPU from the
> > > base thread tasks.
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > Thanks Jon.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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