[beagleboard] Re: Welcome the Fall 2014 Beagle Class to the group
Hi Mark, Quite an interesting course... Would like to know if it is available for self-paced remote-learning ? While I have some C programming exp, I have no classic CS degree/background (Pre-reqs: No OS internals & H/W experience). If not possible/eligible, pl. suggest books/courses to meet the prerequisites. Thanks. -- 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.
Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?
On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:56:01 PM UTC-7, Gerald wrote: > > We have already tried your suggestion. > > Actually, I was referring to that very warning - and that has been ineffectual, since day-1. What I was requesting now, is to have a community small-# ordering scheme. I only hear of hiking prices, but keeping all else the same. That in itself, imho, will not discourage hoarders - they will surely pass the extra cost to customers. What would help is a scheme to allow smal # orders to a given entity (shipping address, userid registered to this group or some such identifier,) thanks. -- 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.
[beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?
On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, oha...@ohararp.com wrote: > > ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay in >> business) >> > Have a feeling, even at an hiked up unit price of $75, the hoarders will gobble them up in large #s, and pass the extra cost on to their customers - after all, the free market price would also be $75. I doubt TI could guarantee supplies even at that price - unless something is done to prevent *productizers* from bulk-ordering huge quantities. TI supposedly released this board as a "community product" and should try and pursue that goal and not just give up that easy. By hiking the price to say $55/60, and through beaglebone.org, TI can allow for the purchase of just a couple of boards to a given shipping address, it can be done since the extra cost could be used to support this option... Many MIR promoters do that today, not entirely impossible (even $60 ARM quad-core based board manufactures do it - 1 per forum member/acct). So beagleboard can make it say 2 or 3 or some reasonable small #. The hoarders can always buy from those other distributors - whose stock-notification scheme is a mere joke. 10mins into getting an email - they are back to 0-stock. Gerald, Pl. figure out a reasonably affordable scheme for the community and another for market-driven scene, where folks are building products using these, against all (practically legally non-enforceable) warnings. The entire learning/maker community, imho, is being heavily penalized, for the actions of a few hoarders. thanks. -- 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.
Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?
Just got an email alert - 26 week backorder time ! Great (unfair) free market forces in play ;!) We definitely don't see the member count of grps such as this swell at these rates... We need some semblance of fairness here, no ;?) -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[beagleboard] Re: BBB with ROS Training Class February 15th -- Mountain View, CA
Hi Greg, What are the pre-requisites to attend this course ? thanks, /venkat -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[beagleboard] Re: BBB With Dell E2014T Multitouch Display
List of typically supported touch screens can be found here: http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/architecture/linux-input/multitouch-devices.html Look at other howto's on adding support for your (supported) panel. /venkat -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?
Interesting... That link points to a $10 markup - a 22% profit margin (assuming they buy for $45 like all of us :-) There's also a link to an Amazon-based supplier, charging a $14 markup - a 31% profit margin. Some markup is reasonable, but these above examples feel like outright greed driven - on the backs of a non-profit org... Feels like these guys are abusing distributor privileges. I think folks would rather pay those artificial premiums to http://beagleboard.org/ towards supporting software dev ;?) Even a small $10 premium, over say 30,000 future units would fetch enough to hire 2~3 fulltime developers. Why doesn't the org setup a paypal acct or some such, and have individuals directly buy from them - maybe charging a reasonable amount for S/H overheads, even using the help of volunteers. /venkat On Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:02:42 AM UTC-8, David Anders wrote: > > ... > https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone/index.htm > ... > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
[beagleboard] To BBB or To TRE
Looks like Arduino & TI have announced the joint product - Arduino TRE: http://newscenter.ti.com/2013-10-03-Texas-Instruments-Sitara-AM335x-ARM-Cortex-A8-processor-fuels-most-powerful-Arduino-to-date which seems to be based on the same TI Sitara™ AM335x that the BBB is based on. Available in Spring 2014 ! More at links like: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre http://makezine.com/2013/10/03/first-look-at-the-new-arduino-tre/ While the "shields" for the BBB look to be unusable on the TRE, looks like a lot of the lessons learned on the BBB can be directly used on the TRE. Audio jacks are nice to have... But, if only there was at least 1GB RAM on the TRE... -- 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/groups/opt_out.
