[Lab] Fwd: Arduino Due

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 02:27:17PM -0500, Bruce Harding wrote:
> The Teensy 3.0 looks very cool. There 1/2 the price and there processor is 
> faster is it not? I think I might get one of each...  There is also the 
> BeagleBone, but I've not heard of anyone locally that is using it.  If you 
> have give me a shout with your opinions.

Rob Day has experience with the BeagleBone.  He's been building Linux images
for it...  He moved here a couple of years ago and joined OCLUG.  He runs linux
courses: http://crashcourse.ca/

Only issue so far is the Teensy 3.0 doesn't have ethernet, but I'm looking into
ways to solve that.

> Bruce Harding
> 
> On February 5, 2013 01:00:07 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 12:29:25PM -0500, Michael Grant wrote:
> > > I got a Due clone via eBay, this one:
> > > http://www.elechouse.com/elechouse/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=
> > > 72_73&products_id=2212&zenid=v2p46h9ec9785r5n01r5msvms2
> > > 
> > > It was delivered yesterday but I haven't any specific plans until I test a
> > > few things.
> > > Namely power consumption and sleep modes for a battery powered project...
> > 
> > I recently picked up two Teensy 3.0 as a result of supporting their
> > kickstarter campaign:
> > 
> > 	http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3.html
> > 
> > I plan to use it to replace 3 arduino in my smart panel project:
> > 	http://tricolour.ca/smart_panel.html
> > 
> > They are half the price and have Arduino IDE support.
> > 
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bruce Harding <
> > > 
> > > bruce.harding at faintfuzzies.ca> wrote:
> > > > Is anyone in the group using the Arduino Due or are you preferring to
> > > > use a
> > > > Rasberry Pi. If you had the choice and you choose one over the other
> > > > what
> > > > was
> > > > your reasons?
> > > > 
> > > > Bruce Harding
> > 
> > 	slainte mhath, RGB

	slainte mhath, RGB

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