Re: [CODE4LIB] BeagleBone Black, anyone?

2013-05-21 Thread raffaele messuti 
Roy Tennant wrote:
 Is anyone working with a BeagleBone Black? [1] Or some other
 Beagleboard? In perhaps a cart-before-the-horse kind of way, I'd love
 to do a project with one but I'm having a hard time thinking of a
 really good application. So I'd be interested to hear about the kinds
 of things folks are doing with these.

you can run archiveteam_warrior[1] on it and contribute to archiveteam
to save dying sites. you don't need high cpu power and also few gb for
disk space are enough (the script crawl the site, packs in warc format,
and upload it via rsync to a remote server, deleting your local copy)

to install follow this instructions[2], you don't need the virtual machine

my choice for buying is gone for wandboard[3] other than beaglebone.
it costs twice, but specs supersedes beagle or raspberry.
i'm waiting my package. the first thing i'll do is check power
consumption to understand if it costs less or more than a virtual server
in the cloud

ciao.


[1] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
[2]
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-upcoming-grab/blob/master/README.md#running-without-a-warrior
[3] http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/details


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raffaele

[CODE4LIB] BeagleBone Black, anyone?

2013-05-20 Thread Roy Tennant 
Is anyone working with a BeagleBone Black? [1] Or some other
Beagleboard? In perhaps a cart-before-the-horse kind of way, I'd love
to do a project with one but I'm having a hard time thinking of a
really good application. So I'd be interested to hear about the kinds
of things folks are doing with these.
Roy

[1] http://beagleboard.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] BeagleBone Black, anyone?

2013-05-20 Thread Al Matthews 
My 2c,

I like them. Use them if you want to study embedded. Processorwise they're
pitched between a smartphone and an Arduino. They have onboard DSP and
will play 1080 HD video without an issue if you ask nicely. If you'll
pardon the distinction, you can run either as Linux or as Android. Entry
experience seems to me easier than the Raspberry PI.

Potentially useful things to know:

* Not all 5v power adapters are created equal. BB Blacks power over USB
but, if you're using a USB wall wart, your cell phone charger may not do,
even if it says it will.

* HDMI on the Beaglebone Black is not a full-sized HDMI but rather a micro
type D.

* Beaglebone Black is brand new and most Googled info is still original
Beaglebone.

* Beaglebone Black has no audio output hardware of which I am immediately
aware. I guess you have to rely on audio over USB or HDMI.

* Raspberry PI by the way does not implement OPENGL ES or at least had not
last time I deployed anything; surely that's dated information by now.

Applications I've heard of:

* Front-end to an NAS, streaming media server, Archivematica, e.g.

* Lots of people use them for OpenCV, so think in those terms: I don't
just need an Arduino w/ sensor, I want to run some analysis on my
camera-in signal, on the board.

* http://beagleboard.org/project



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Al Matthews

Software Developer, Digital Services Unit
Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library
email: amatth...@auctr.edu; office: 1 404 978 2057





On 5/20/13 11:44 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

Is anyone working with a BeagleBone Black? [1] Or some other
Beagleboard? In perhaps a cart-before-the-horse kind of way, I'd love
to do a project with one but I'm having a hard time thinking of a
really good application. So I'd be interested to hear about the kinds
of things folks are doing with these.
Roy

[1] http://beagleboard.org/


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