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BBB ships more than 100K units -- and soon with Debian!

johnbeetem

I just saw this at Linux Gizmos: http://linuxgizmos.com/beaglebone-black-sbc-surpasses-100000-units/

Sales of the open source BeagleBone Black SBC, which began shipping in May, have surpassed 100,000 units according to BeagleBoard.org...

 

According to Jason Kridner, sales picked up considerably during the 2013 year-end holiday season. The word has been spreading recently “with lots of great how-tos including at least six BeagleBone books either out or just about to be out and available for pre-order”.

And saving the best for last:

According to Kridner, BeagleBoard.org will have a number of announcements regarding the BeagleBone Black in the new few months. These are said to include “a significant software update, moving our in-the-box distribution to Debian, and an updated version of the Cloud9 IDE.” There will also be “more in-the-box tutorials using JavaScript, and simplified programming of the PRU microcontrollers”

Woo-hoo!

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  • Hi John,

     

    What good news (all of it!). I think the "simplified programming" may refer to a C compiler that was completed a while back (I have not tried it), but I hope it also includes a framework for communication between the PRU code and the user program(s) on top of Linux. The JavaScript tutorials thing is great, since Node.js makes prototyping so fast (I've not used Python so I can't compare - but at least with JavaScript people can reuse the learnt knowledge in html files too).

  • in reply to shabaz

    shabaz wrote:

     

    Hi John,

     

    What good news (all of it!). I think the "simplified programming" may refer to a C compiler that was completed a while back (I have not tried it), but I hope it also includes a framework for communication between the PRU code and the user program(s) on top of Linux. The JavaScript tutorials thing is great, since Node.js makes prototyping so fast (I've not used Python so I can't compare - but at least with JavaScript people can reuse the learnt knowledge in html files too).

     

    That's pretty much right. The C compiler should be public by then. Here is an example of an improved framework for talking to apps in Linux from the PRU and includes an app written on the PRU in C using the beta of the compiler:

     

    https://github.com/mranostay/ws28xx-lighting-pru

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  • in reply to shabaz

    shabaz wrote:

     

    Hi John,

     

    What good news (all of it!). I think the "simplified programming" may refer to a C compiler that was completed a while back (I have not tried it), but I hope it also includes a framework for communication between the PRU code and the user program(s) on top of Linux. The JavaScript tutorials thing is great, since Node.js makes prototyping so fast (I've not used Python so I can't compare - but at least with JavaScript people can reuse the learnt knowledge in html files too).

     

    That's pretty much right. The C compiler should be public by then. Here is an example of an improved framework for talking to apps in Linux from the PRU and includes an app written on the PRU in C using the beta of the compiler:

     

    https://github.com/mranostay/ws28xx-lighting-pru

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