RE: diy sbc

Former Member — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:38:24 GMT

Two excellent communities are available in terms of user support, available hardware projects, and (open) source code:

Beagle - BeagleBoard.org - community supported open hardware computers for making
Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/
Adafruit/Arduino - https://www.adafruit.com/

There are other links all over Element14.

First, what do you want to do with your first SBC?

Electronics project?
Inexpensive desktop?
Inexpensive laptop?
Carry something around sewn into clothing?
Astronomy/weather/radio data gathering or processing or both?
Build a robot?
Combinations of the above?
Something else?

If you are heading in the direction of a desktop or a laptop kit project (E.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3065 or https://www.adafruit.com/product/3116 ), I would point you at the Raspberry Pi simply based on RAM (2x Beagle products, in general) and the CPU advantage. You'll probably be running a Unix or Linux on an SBC and I highly recommend Raspbian due to is huge popularity and, therefore, notable support opportunities. Note that the LaptopOS for the 2 Adafruit kits that I mentioned is based on Raspbian.

I am not the right person to talk about Windows 10 [read into that what you wish! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-ff8c425e-93b7-40c6-95ef-d1d91fd014de/contentimage_5F00_3890.png:16:16]].

Of course, there are other SBC manufacturers offering more RAM on more powerful CPU/GPU for more $$$. Shop and research if you so desire.

Keep in mind, if you learned electronics, then you can learn Unix or Linux, command-line operations, `ssh`, bash shell, Python version 3 programming, and system administration. Divide and conquer. Keep at it.

RE: diy sbc

Robert Peter Oakes — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:17:18 GMT

What kind of SBC are you looking to build… Something like a Raspberry PI or something like an Arduino. To ask a different way, what is it your planning to do with it ?