Top 5 Reasons The Raspberry Pi Sucks

Very amusing satire.  However, it is worthwhile to point out that even though RasPi Model A/B is "the size of a credit card" it won't fit in an Altoids box because it doesn't have rounded corners like a credit card.  The BeagleBone does.  Gerald Coley told me those rounded corners and mounting holes made BeagleBone placement and routing a real pain.

I might have to try one of these beaglebone devices.

I might have to try one of these beaglebone devices.

The BBB is very well put together I like the fact you can use a battery to power it which is great for mobile devices!

Problemchild, Would you recommend the BeagleBone Black edition?

I liked it  Shabaz is the expert on that device ...see what he's done with it !

I think the real time aspect with the PRUs is cool as well more speed is good as well.

My ODROID C has arrived I should do a quick blog on it latter

That was quick, looking forward to hearing about the Odroid!

I saw some initial review but most of it focussed on HDMI, which isn't something that I would use that board for personally, but probably others have different projects that need this. I'd rather see information on CPU performance, peripherals and interfaces!!

Hi Paul,

The BBB is a nice product. It's one of the best single-board computers for portable projects because of the in-built battery charging that John mentioned, and good performance (probably twice as fast on average as RPI for programs using the main CPU), and very high throughput (around 1Gbps) if you want to feed data to/from the board. The PRUs that John mentions are additional built-in processors that can be programmed in C or assembler, and they function at 200MHz and allow for I/O to operate at this rate too (which is very unusual for processors).

Mine arrived as well. I was stupid and didn't order the power supply, or at least the pigtail, that 2.5 mm connector was hard to find. Believe it or not Radio Shack saved the day as I was able to buy one of their Adaptaplug (size A) plugs along with the socket and I was able to create a 5v ps to get me going, albeit at only 850 mA.

The image i downloaded from their site was a typical installation, dd the image onto the SD card. Plugged it in and it booted right up. Showed up on my network as odroid, I ssh'd in and was good to go.

It's a bit early, but I think this is my favorite board yet :-)

Mike

BTW, some of the reasons I say I like this board are:

1) Quad core

2) Modern Ubuntu OS 14.04

3) Great accessory support - their site has a bunch of stuff I'd like to purchase, and it is inexpensive

The form factor is dang close to that of the Pi. And it was still only ~$35.

So far, I like it. I may blog about it myself. I've got to finish up my B+ STEM blogs I promised Dave I would do first though. I'm working on them right now.

Mike

mine did too I think the same ... It's the daddy

My Laser minion did a case for the ODROID -C so fresh the Green protective plastic's still on !

And here's another pic

Very nice, mine's just laying on the desk

Mike