Which Single Computer Board to buy?

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Hello Please help me to choose which single computer board to buy from among. I'm looking for comparing with BBC Microbit board . My objective is hands-on some small kind of electronics projects using C/C++ coding (from Windows XP) to board. Please guide me to select perfect board. -pritamshah@gmail.com

dougw · Answer

The Cypress PSoC 4 BLE development kit has pretty similar features and computing power to the BBC micro:bit plus some extra features.

http://www.element14.com/community/search.jspa?q=CY8CKIT-042-BLE

here are some example projects:

http://www.element14.com/community/message/143707/l/100-project-for-psoc-4-ble-first-20-projects#143707

Former Member · Answer

If your objective is solely a set of electronics projects, then your best bet is Raspberry Pi 2 or BeagleBone Black running on a Debian-ish distribution (E.g. Raspbian). This would provide you with a very wide community of support while getting your feet wet. They both also support RPM based distros like Fedora if that is your cup of tea.

My personal choice was Raspberry Pi 2 because currently (not necessarily tomorrow) the RPi2 RAM size (1GB) is double that of the BBB (0.5GB). I chose Raspbian because the distro has excellent support and documentation. Also, I am a cheapskate and the RPi2 + "condiments" was a bargain!

With respect to your Windows XP source code (Visual Studio based?), get ready to manually modify code as Microsoft C++ is very different from any one else, even when no GUIs are involved. Hopefully, you are already familiar with Linux, desktops, `make`, and GCC (Gnu C/C++ compiler).

Which Single Computer Board to buy?

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