[Lab] Beagle Bone Workshop Tomorrow night!

[Raj]

It is more than just filling a niche between the arduino and a pi - think
of it as a combination of the two - so the power and flexibility of linux
with the i/o capability of an arduino.

I use a beaglebone (white) with 2xUART (1 for an xbee coordinator and 1 for
driving an LCD display), 1 analog input for a temperature sensor and I
still have lots of i/o capability left over to expand.  With a USB hub, I
have 1 SSD and one CF drive and a UPS monitor.  An USB modem works as my
phone answering machine with vgetty that emails me my voicemail at home.
 Plus it runs ssh, cacti, ntp and a bunch of other services for my home
network.  Way more than either an arduino or pi could do alone or even
together.  The black is faster, more powerful and cheaper but otherwise
pretty similar to the white in footprint and expandability

--Raj



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Mike Milinkovich <
mike.milinkovich at eclipse.org> wrote:

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> Well, I think it depends on which BeagleBone you’re referring to. The
> BeagleBone Black has a faster processor, and more on-board storage (2 GB
> vs. SD card only) than the Raspberry Pi. It also has a newer-generation ARM
> processor, so if you want to run Java it’s likely a better fit. So I
> actually think of the BB Black as a Raspberry Pi with a little more oomph.
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> I don’t know much about the BeagleBone White. IIRC, that one is
> well-described as filling the niche between the Arduino and the Raspberry
> Pi.****
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> That said, my BB Black just arrived, and I actually haven’t done anything
> with it, unlike the 4 Raspberry Pi’s and two Arduino’s I own :)  My goal is
> to get an openHAB home automation server[1] running on it (soon to be
> renamed and migrated to Eclipse Smart Home[2])****
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> *From:* Lab [mailto:lab-bounces at artengine.ca] *On Behalf Of *Britta
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> *Sent:* September-04-13 1:33 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Lab] Beagle Bone Workshop Tomorrow night!****
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> that is a pretty accurate description actually. It really is the gap
> filler between arduino and Raspberry pi.****
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> I know Darcy and I were looking into using BeagleBone when we were
> initially working on the Bright Smile project together.  Due to time issues
> I ended up using 4 arduinos and 4 computer (probably could have saved
> myself some hardware if I went BeagleBone...)****
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
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>    Can anyone on the list give some perspective on where the
> Beagleboard/bone fits into the electronics landscape? At a glance it looks
> like it occupies a space between the Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. A
> portable, low-power linux PC without a monitor hookup?****
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>    Why would I choose a Beagleboard over one of the other platforms?****
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Britta Evans-Fenton <
> technical at artengine.ca> wrote:****
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> Hi everyone!****
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> Just to let you know there is a beagle bone workshop happening* tomorrow
> night in M70 (7-9PM)*****
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> *Workshop info:*****
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> An overview of the BeagleBones White, and Black and the rich I/O
> peripherals they offer. Will show the embedded linux and IDE environment.
> Will show example of interfacing with the GPIO and I2C interfaces using the
> native OS interface and the abstracted "BoneLib" library authored by the
> presenter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonelib/).****
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> *To sign up please see here: *****
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> https://beaglebone.eventbrite.ca/****
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> For more information don't hesitate to ask!****
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