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Raspberry Banana Pi Arduino - Open Source?

Former Member

Hi iam asking myself if Raspberry Banana Pi Arduino  are OpenSource..

I think Arduino is totally OpenSource.

Raspberry not totaly but Banana Pi copied the open Source part.

 

Thank you ,have a nice dayimage

  • All three are open source software. But on the hardware they vary from Arduino the most (see all the clones). But there are fakes as well which becomes a problem where the logo is misused. Then on the other side we have the Raspberry Pi that is semi open. But here the clones are not as much. Yes the copies are there using Chinese chips. But documentation is in Chinese! Can you read?

    Clem

  • in reply to clem57

    Yeah, thank you !

    I just found out, that raspberrys CPU an GPU are not OpenSource.

    Can you give one example for open source software refferring to raspberry,arduino or Banana pi?

    Is it only free to programm , like their GPIOs or are there more possibilities?

  • in reply to Former Member

    The Raspberry Pi runs a distribution of GNU/Linux, which is a completely open source full featured operating system. There are office like tools, like spreadsheets and word processors, editors, IDEs, and compilers, games, game console emulators, educational tools, etc... All of these are usually available free of charge and all source code is available.

     

    In addition all the gpio pins are documented and can be programmed using a variety of languages such as C, python, perl, C#, and others.

     

    The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

     

     

    Mike

  • in reply to mconners

    Oh you can even run the Arduino IDE on the Pi and program your Arduino.

     

    Mike

  • in reply to Former Member

    The Raspberry Pi GPU is fully documented. It is the only GPU in an ARM SoC chip that is. An assembler and disassembler are available for it as well. As far as I know the

    only part of the CPU that is not fully documented is the USB interface however I do not know this for certain.

     

    A sore point with me about Raspberry Pi is that for some reason since the B+ model they have ceased to release schematics. They have never published a reason for this

    and simply ignore any questions about it. They also continue to ignore any and all calls to discontinue this silly policy.