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SBC's in pictures

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One thing that tends to annoy me is that when there's a photo of a SBC it tends to be on a plain background with nothing that you can use to judge the relative size of the board. Or what's worse is something like the SBC home page here on e14 where there's a list of six SBC's at the right where the pictures all seem to have been re-scaled to make them all look mostly the same size.

 

I'd seen photos of the Wandboard previously, but when two were delivered today I was surprised how small the package was... then you start wondering if they've only sent one..

 

So here's an attempt to rectify the situation.

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Top middle: Sabre-Lite

Top Right  : BeagleBone Black

 

Bottom Left: Minnowboard

Bottom Middle : Wandboard Quad

Bottom Right : Raspberry Pi

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  • That's a very good point you make about the content editors scaling everything to fit the size of columns and as a result all sense of actual size being lost.  I knew that the Minnowboard was comparatively large (nearly nano-ITX size), but didn't know how the SL and WB compared to the credit-card size BBB and Pi.  (Parallella is like the last two.)

     

    Perhaps Element14 needs a simple, long horizontal image displaying all their boards side-by-side purely for purposes of size comparison.  If the plain background is a graticule labelled in mm and the boards all rest on the horizontal origin, that could actually be a useful resource.  At least the sense of scale would be preserved.

     

    Morgaine.

     

     

    PS. Very impressive heatsink on the WB.  How hot does it get?

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    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    Perhaps Element14 needs a simple, long horizontal image displaying all their boards side-by-side purely for purposes of size comparison.  If the plain background is a graticule labelled in mm and the boards all rest on the horizontal origin, that could actually be a useful resource.  At least the sense of scale would be preserved.

    At least they should say how big it is compared to an Altoids box image  For example, BBone fits because it has rounded corners, but RasPi doesn't.

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    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    Perhaps Element14 needs a simple, long horizontal image displaying all their boards side-by-side purely for purposes of size comparison.  If the plain background is a graticule labelled in mm and the boards all rest on the horizontal origin, that could actually be a useful resource.  At least the sense of scale would be preserved.

    At least they should say how big it is compared to an Altoids box image  For example, BBone fits because it has rounded corners, but RasPi doesn't.

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