New kid on the block the pcDuino ...

Nice board!  I found a link to sparkfun.com if others are interested.

Initial impressions: kind of like Cubieboard, but with a lot less I/O.  Unfortunate that they didn't bring out SATA, as that would have made it a better "PC".

I'll be interested how it stacks up against the new BeagleBone.  Yes, pcDuino has twice the DRAM, but BBone has tons of I/O pins and some very interesting peripherals like PRUSS.

The real deciding factor on all of these is software support.  I think the RasPi community is doing the best in this regard for most users.  OTOH, if you need reliable USB or Ethernet you're better off with BBone.  Plus it's the only one with chip documentation openly available AFAIK.

I agree, I received the Cubieboard not long ago, but didn't have time to play much with it. They had some issues with the USB power cables they shipped but few days ago I received a new one.

I agree with your comment about the coming bbone, TI so far has open documentation and good support, I'm still waiting to see what happens with the guys that were trying to put together the wandboard which has the Freescale SoC which has documentation available.

Can remember the name but there was somebody here in the forum looking to put something together with the Freescale chip.

I believe we are going to see an increasing number of boards out there, no doubt the most popular for many continues to be the Raspberry Pi, it is still a good choice for many applications and for quick prototyping. Where I'm right now (sort of a technology incubator) there is a group of folks using it for a prototype to hook up vending machines to the Internet, but the final product will most probably be a microcontroller based board.

-J

I agree, I received the Cubieboard not long ago, but didn't have time to play much with it. They had some issues with the USB power cables they shipped but few days ago I received a new one.

I agree with your comment about the coming bbone, TI so far has open documentation and good support, I'm still waiting to see what happens with the guys that were trying to put together the wandboard which has the Freescale SoC which has documentation available.

Can remember the name but there was somebody here in the forum looking to put something together with the Freescale chip.

I believe we are going to see an increasing number of boards out there, no doubt the most popular for many continues to be the Raspberry Pi, it is still a good choice for many applications and for quick prototyping. Where I'm right now (sort of a technology incubator) there is a group of folks using it for a prototype to hook up vending machines to the Internet, but the final product will most probably be a microcontroller based board.

-J

Just to let you know. The Wandboard is shipping > www.wandboard.org     

Thanks !! Didn't know, I left my email there but never got any messages from you guys, I'll check it out and place an order then.

Cheers

Jorge