Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread William Hermans
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 k

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread William Hermans
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

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread John Syne
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 bette

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Gerald Coley
Source has been noted. Gerald On Mar 22, 2016 6:52 PM, "evilwulfie" wrote: > Nobody has forced you to use the BBB. > Nobody has forced you to even LIKE the BBB > > As long as you feel that way remove yourself from the list and we will not > be bothered > by you anymore. > > > On 3/22/2016 4:42 P

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread evilwulfie
Nobody has forced you to use the BBB. Nobody has forced you to even LIKE the BBB As long as you feel that way remove yourself from the list and we will not be bothered by you anymore. On 3/22/2016 4:42 PM, Karl Easterly wrote: > > to be a bit more nice about my grandious statement that the BBB i

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Karl Easterly
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

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread ChrisB
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

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Karl Easterly
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 wrote: > Quoting Robert Nelson : > > On

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread David Good
I'm sorry to hear the frustration Karl, but actually I'm on the other arc: Pi to BeagleBone. The Pi has a lot going for it, but I get the feeling it's trying to craft an Arduion-like experience. That's great for messing around, but my experience was that as soon as you leave the well worn path, y

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread evilwulfie
Reading this made me laugh. On 3/20/2016 3:49 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > /Trying to update the flash to Debian 8.3 and initially I get the > back and forth Knight Rider pattern. Then, after a bit I get just > 4 double blink leds every half second or so. Looks like a few > oth

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread William Hermans
> > *Trying to update the flash to Debian 8.3 and initially I get the back and > forth Knight Rider pattern. Then, after a bit I get just 4 double blink > leds every half second or so. Looks like a few others have seen this, but > no conversation around the issue or possible solutions.* > > *My ras

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread Peter Lawler
On 21 Mar 2016 06:28, "Karl Easterly" wrote: > Mine are going in the trash Seriously? Don't trash em. Send em to me. Email me your details and I'll pay for shipping if you like. PO Box 195 Lindisfarne Tasmania AUSTRALIA 7015 P. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss ---

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Robert Nelson : On Mar 20, 2016 2:28 PM, "Karl Easterly" 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 a

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mar 20, 2016 2:28 PM, "Karl Easterly" wrote: > > Trying to update the flash to Debian 8.3 and initially I get the back and forth Knight Rider pattern. Then, after a bit I get just 4 double blink leds every half second or so. Looks like a few others have seen this, but no conversation around the