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Pi vs BeagleBone-Black

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So, just over a year on from the initial availability of the R-Pi and the new BeagleBone Black is upon us.  They've obviously taken a leaf out of the RPF's playbook and produced a cost reduced version at a price only marginally above the Pi.

 

I find it interesting that the compromises are very different, for example there's a proper PMIC and the ethernet is not troubled by being connected to USB, however the on-board HDMI seems less capable.

 

Other differences are in the documentation, I'm currently viewing the pcb gerbers for the beaglebone..  Have yet to see any sign of those for the R-Pi a year later. There's even an up to date devicetree capable kernel too.

 

Technology has also moved on somewhat, we get a 1GHz Cortex A8 which is better than the Pi, along with various other stuff and lots more GPIO's too.

 

Ok, so it's clear that I like the look of the new beaglebone, and given the price I'm likely to put any further R-Pi plans on hold until I have a chance to play with this. It's also making things like the Olinuxino-maxi I bought recently look very slow/expensive while still being cheaper than the similarly specced Olinuxino-A13

 

Some details of the beaglebone-black here http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack

 

What do the rest of you think ?   I don't expect this to displace the Pi anytime soon, but I expect it to be very attractive to those people who don't simply want to put XBMC on it and duct tape it to the back of the TV..

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  • John Beetem wrote:

     

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    The engineers seem to be very reasonable people, like all engineers everywhere.

    I've met many engineers, both reasonable and unreasonable.  My experience is that the more competent an engineer is, the more reasonable and more humble.

     

    This hooks directly into the well-studied phenomenon that "The more you know, the more you realize that you don't know."  I started doubting myself in the second year of the PhD, about a million years ago (the first year was fun).  After years of additional experience, I now know that I know almost nothing.  Only the totally stupid think that they understand much of anything.  (And it's quite hilarious.)

     

    What it comes down to is the following:  Reality is extremely complicated, and if you think that your intellect has allowed you to grasp much of it then you're deluded, for the simple reason that human IQ is tightly bounded.  Sorry to those who think otherwise, but you don't have an order of magnitude more than anyone else.  If you think that you do then it probably indicates that you have an order of magnitude less.

     

    Given this state of affairs, the pragmatic engineer (is there any other kind?) takes what's available and runs with it.  We have some problems, let's solve them.  We have some set of understandings [X], let's use them to try to figure out WTF is wrong with something that is failing.  If [X] doesn't cover it, it this a problem?  Hell no, it just means that we have to extend our set of understandings.  Great, it rains almost every day (UK), extending our understanding is something that we can do regularly instead of going out and frollicking in the wet.

     

    I'm being a bit ornamental just to avoid forum boredom, but it's a reality.  There is little purpose in us being here in our brief stay on the planet other than to help civilization advance.  Advancement is only accomplished by acknowleding the current faults and finding remedies, and that's what engineers do.  Engineers++.

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  • John Beetem wrote:

     

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    The engineers seem to be very reasonable people, like all engineers everywhere.

    I've met many engineers, both reasonable and unreasonable.  My experience is that the more competent an engineer is, the more reasonable and more humble.

     

    This hooks directly into the well-studied phenomenon that "The more you know, the more you realize that you don't know."  I started doubting myself in the second year of the PhD, about a million years ago (the first year was fun).  After years of additional experience, I now know that I know almost nothing.  Only the totally stupid think that they understand much of anything.  (And it's quite hilarious.)

     

    What it comes down to is the following:  Reality is extremely complicated, and if you think that your intellect has allowed you to grasp much of it then you're deluded, for the simple reason that human IQ is tightly bounded.  Sorry to those who think otherwise, but you don't have an order of magnitude more than anyone else.  If you think that you do then it probably indicates that you have an order of magnitude less.

     

    Given this state of affairs, the pragmatic engineer (is there any other kind?) takes what's available and runs with it.  We have some problems, let's solve them.  We have some set of understandings [X], let's use them to try to figure out WTF is wrong with something that is failing.  If [X] doesn't cover it, it this a problem?  Hell no, it just means that we have to extend our set of understandings.  Great, it rains almost every day (UK), extending our understanding is something that we can do regularly instead of going out and frollicking in the wet.

     

    I'm being a bit ornamental just to avoid forum boredom, but it's a reality.  There is little purpose in us being here in our brief stay on the planet other than to help civilization advance.  Advancement is only accomplished by acknowleding the current faults and finding remedies, and that's what engineers do.  Engineers++.

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